What does mameluco mean?
Mameluco means A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent..
The reverse is the case in South America, where the mixture of the Portuguese or Brazilian with the Indian produces the "Mameluco," who is not unfrequently lighter than either parent, and always lighter than the Indian.
The Tupi, who a few years earlier had flourished along these opulent coasts, had already been driven farther and farther back into the forest, and appeared in the records […] only as occasional domestic slaves and already mainly present as mixed blood mamelucos, the first children of multiracial Brazil.
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Mameluco means A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent..
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The reverse is the case in South America, where the mixture of the Portuguese or Brazilian with the Indian produces the "Mameluco," who is not unfrequently lighter than either parent, and always lighter than the Indian.
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