Mulatto

' ( , ) is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry. When speaking or writing about a singular woman in English, the word is ' (). The use of this term began in areas that later became the United States shortly after the Atlantic slave trade began. Although it has been employed in derogatory contexts, some mixed-race communities reject the claim that the term is inherently offensive and instead regard it as a descriptor that has been mischaracterized by individuals who are not of mixed-race origin. After the post Civil Rights Era, the term is now con

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ethnic groups in Equatorial Guinea

citizens or residents of Cabo Verde

persons of partial African and European descent who were not enslaved

thumb|right|Mestiço man with gun and sword under a fruiting papaya tree, Albert Eckhout, mid-seventeenth century [[Dutch Brazil]] Mestiço is a Portuguese term that refers to persons of mixed race, as people from European and Indigenous non-European ancestry.

thumb|Negresse of quality from the Island of Saint Louis in Senegal, accompanied by her slave, Illustration from Costumes civils de tous les peuples connus, Paris, 1788, by . thumb|300px|A Signares ball, with European men.