mestizo

(noun)

A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.

Related Terms

  • Mexican Revolution

Examples of mestizo in the following topics:

  • Race Relations in Mexico: The Color Hierarchy

    • As a classifier, indigenous identity was constructed by the dominant European and Mestizo majority and imposed upon indigenous people as a pejorative.
    • Because "Mestizos" are also people with varying amounts of European ancestry, the differentiation between "mestizos" and "blancos" is often based on socio-cultural rather than biological boundaries.
    • Intermixing eventually produced a Mestizo group that would become the nation's demographic majority by the time of Independence.
    • The term "mestizo" is not widely used in Mexican society today, and it has been dropped as a category in population censuses.
    • Most people who would be defined as mestizos in the sociological literature would probably self-identify simply as Mexicans.
  • Mexican Muralism

    • These ideals or principles were to glorify the Mexican Revolution and the identity of Mexico as a mestizo nation, with the indigenous promoted as well as the Spanish.
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