In 1973, Cher released a track called “Half Breed” – which is certainly news to me. Check out the album art for the Japanese version:

What’s interesting is that this American song – about living with mixed white and Cherokee heritage – made number 1 in Canada and New Zealand (but only made number 3 in Australia). You may scoff, but this represents a fairly significant – and transnational – triumph of miscegenation discourse into the realm 70s pop-culture. It also one of the few early tracks she released in Germany, where it made 29. (Statistics come from Wikipedia, btw.)

For her surreal and uncomfortable film-clip, complete with symbolic Cherokee window-dressing, head over to Youtube. Thanks to Rob A. for pointing this one out to me.