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Peer reviewedForbes, Jack O. – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1982
Traces the different social, ethnic, and racial connotations of the word "mulatto" since the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Stresses the fact that in Spanish America, the word more often referred to individuals of Black and American Indian admixture than to those of Black and White (Spanish) admixture. (GC)
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Definitions, Latin American History
