mestizo

Examples

• All

• Consequently, the Veracruz Teeneks live both in constant contact with and cut off from mestizo society.

  Academic text (2008)

• In practice, the basketball courts in Managua's Luis Alfonso Park are segregated: mestizos play separately from Atlantic Coast blacks.

  Academic text (1991)

• During this search, the mestizo was invented as a national symbol.

  Academic text (1999)

• The categories with which they divide the mestizo world are for them universal frames of experience.

  Academic text (1991)

• Most prominent is the Virgin of Guadalupe, who personifies Mexican identity and mestizo culture.

  Academic text (2008)

• Medicines alleviate symptoms of greater problems created by indigenous people's land loss to mestizo colonists.

  Academic text (1996)

• Present-day Teenek villages are scattered around the mestizo town of Tantoyuca.

  Academic text (2008)

• The works of Rudolfo Anaya center around the concept of Aztlan and the affirmations of a mestizo heritage.

  Academic text (1990)

• The arrival of mestizos and Maya from the Yucatan had both demographic and economic significance for the colony.

  Academic text (1997)

• The majority of us are mestizo, meaning descendants of Spanish and indigenous peoples.

Synonyms

M

mestiza

vsmestizo

1 9.9

A woman with both European and Indigenous ancestry in Latin America

is the general gender neutral term for the same mixed ancestry

C

cholo

vsmestizo

• UK

1 9.9

A person of mixed native and European background in the Andes

is a wider Latin American term for mixed European and Native American ancestry

Surface Forms

Etymology