Meaning of mestize | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic or gender-neutral form of mestizo.

alt-of, archaic, gender-neutral

Examples

“A light⟳ complexion is accompanied with to a Terceron, who is called by some a red or fair hair, a dark one with black hair, Morisco, or Mestize.”

“A Mestize therefore in our islands is, I suppose⟳, the Quinteron of the Spaniards.”

“A Black Hamite and a Zamba - A White Man and a Mulatto – An Asiatic Indian and a European - American Mestize and a European Carribean and Zambi - Mestize and a Native American - Mulatto and a Carribean - Terceroon and a White Man […]”

“Nonetheless, the concept of a 'mestize' being one-half American, one-fourth European, and one-fourth African was probably not borrowed from Spanish usage. It may reflect⟳ the fact that Americans in Jamaica were[…]”

“Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race⟳.”

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