Mestizos

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Name (Hebrew)
מסטיסים
Name (Latin)
Mestizos
Name (Arabic)
الميستيثو
Other forms of name
Eurindians (Latin America)
Hispano-Indians (Latin America)
Mestiços
מסטיסוס
אנשים רב גזעיים (ממוצא אירופאי וילידי-אמריקני)
See Also From tracing topical name
Indians Mixed descent
Latin Americans
Racially mixed people Latin America
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q106713
Library of congress: sh 93008230
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: 93-137843: Reyes Govea. El Mestizo, la nación y el nacionalismo mexicano, 1992.
  • Encyc. of Lat. Amer., 1974(Mestizo; in Spanish America a person of mixed racial origin, particularly one of the white and Indian ancestry; in the Andean countries of South Amer. the word "cholo" is sometimes used as a synonym for mestizo; in Brazil the Portuguese word mestiço is a generic term for mixed-bloods of all types (during the colonial period a person of Indian-white origin was referred to as a caboclo)
  • Americana:v. 17, p. 7 (In much of Latin America the term "mestizo" is applied to a person of mixed Indian and European ancestry)
  • Hennepin(Mestizos; for Latin Americans of mixed European and Indian descent; see also Chicanos, x refs. from Eurindians (Latin America), Half-breeds (Latin America), Hispano-Indians (Latin America), Indians of South America-Mixed bloods, Mixed bloods (Latin American Indians))
  • Web. 3(Mestizo; 1. Mixed-blood; a. A person of mixed European and non-Caucasian stock; specif. one of European (as Spanish or Portuguese) and American Indian ancestry, b. Philippines: a person of foreign (as Chinese) and native ancestry. 2. A completely acculturated Central or So. Amer. Indian)