mestizo
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"Mestizo" is a term used to describe people of mixed Spanish and Indigenous ancestry in Latin America and other former Spanish territories, though in some regions it can also refer to people who are culturally European despite having Indigenous American ancestors. Historically, it was an official classification used by Spanish colonial authorities in documents like censuses and parish registers to categorize mixed-race individuals.
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- Ethnic group.group
- Mestizo
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- Spanish
- Ethnic group.image
- Castas 01mestiza max.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- A casta painting of a Spanish man and an Indigenous Mexican woman with their Mestizo child,
- Ethnic group.regions
- Latin America, United States, Spain, Philippines
- Ethnic group.rels
- Predominantly Roman Catholic; religious minorities including Protestants, syncretism with Native American beliefs, animism
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36 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Cognates and related terms
- Mestizo as a colonial-era category
- Percentage and genetic admixture by country in the Americas
- Spanish-speaking North America
- Mexico
- Genetic studies
- Central America
- Honduras
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Spanish-speaking South America
- Argentina and Uruguay
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Venezuela
- Spanish East Indies
- Guam and Northern Mariana Islands
- Philippines
- Elsewhere in the Americas
- Aruba
- Belize
- United States
- ''Mestizaje'' in Latin America
- In post-revolution Mexico
- Elsewhere in Latin America
- Europe
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
' is a term primarily used to denote people of mixed Spanish and Indigenous ancestry in the former Spanish Empire. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally European, even though their ancestors were Indigenous Americans. The term was used as an ethno-racial exonym for mixed-race that evolved during the Spanish Empire. It was a formal label for individuals in official documents, such as censuses, parish registers, Inquisition trials, and others. Priests and royal officials might have classified persons as mestizos, but individuals also used the term in self-identification. With the Bourbon reforms and the independence of the Americas, the caste system disappeared and terms like "mestizo" fell in popularity.
The noun ', derived from the adjective , is a term for racial mixing that did not come into usage until the 20th century; it was not a colonial-era term. In the modern era, mestizaje is used by scholars such as Gloria Anzaldúa as a synonym for miscegenation, with positive connotations.
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