‘Mestizo’ and ‘mulatto’: Mixed-race identities among U.S. HispanicsPosted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Latino Studies, Media Archive, United States on 2015-07-11 20:50Z by Steven |
‘Mestizo’ and ‘mulatto’: Mixed-race identities among U.S. Hispanics
Pew Research Center
2015-07-10
Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate
For many Americans, the term “mixed race” brings to mind a biracial experience of having one parent black and another white, or perhaps one white and the other Asian.
But for many U.S. Latinos, mixed-race identity takes on a different meaning – one that is tied to Latin America’s colonial history and commonly includes having a white and indigenous, or “mestizo,” background somewhere in their ancestry.
When asked if they identify as “mestizo,” “mulatto” or some other mixed-race combination, one-third of U.S. Hispanics say they do, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey of Hispanic adults…
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