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mestizo
I was left with my mother, a very independent Indian woman who was also mestizo.
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The mestizo de sangleys were far more numerous than mestizos of Spanish descent.
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The Black Sandinistas were challenged by a group of mestizo Sandinista fighters.
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After independence, most mestizos had native fathers and white or mestizo mothers.
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Within decades, they were assimilated into the Spanish and Indian mestizo culture.
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Mestizo music comes out of the interrelation between Spanish and Indian music.
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Eventually, the natives and the Spaniards interbred, forming a mestizo class.
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Traditional Ecuadorian music can be classified in mestizo, Indian and black musics.
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Aruba's population is estimated to be 80% mestizo and 20% other ethnicities.
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- A person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
- Mestizo is a traditional term used to denote people of combined Indigenous American and European ancestry.
- (Mestizos) In colonial Latin America, Spanish/Native America who were denied basic political, economic, and social rights due to their mixed heritage.
- (Mestizos) Refers to Filipinos born of mixed heritage, usually a Spanish father and a Philippine mother.
- (mestizos) People of mixed European and Indian ancestry in Mesoamerica and South America; particularly prevalent in areas colonized by Spain; often part of forced labor system. (p. 552)
- The term used during the Spanish colonial period mainly to refer to children born from the unions of Europeans and indigenous peoples. The meaning of the word has varied over time and from place to place; sometimes it has been defined by ancestry and at other times by culture. ...
- The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed Amerindian and European descent. (p. 484)
- Mestizos are the people resulting from the blending of European, Indian, and African traditions in Latin America. At different places and times, they have also been called ladinos or cholos.
- Noun, adj -- A person of mixed Native-European blood in many Latin American cultures.
