Mestize

Quick meaning: Mestize is a noun meaning Archaic or gender-neutral form of mestizo.

Meaning

Archaic or gender-neutral form of mestizo.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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[…]

Word Forms

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