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mestizo
mestizo [Span.,=mixture], person of mixed race; particularly, in Mexico and Central and South America, a person of European (Spanish or Portuguese) and indigenous descent. The mestizos constitute a large part of the population in several Latin American countries; they are in various places also cal... Read more
Belize
Belize , independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations (2005 est. pop. 279,500), 8,867 sq mi (22,965 sq km), Central America, on the Caribbean Sea. Belize is bounded on the N by Mexico, on the S and W by Guatemala, and on the E by the Caribbean. The capital is Belmopan . Belize City , the c... Read more
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially Republic of Costa Rica, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,016,000), 19,575 sq mi (50,700 sq km), Central America. It is bounded on the north by Nicaragua, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the southeast by Panama, and on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. The capital and la... Read more
Honduras
Honduras , officially Republic of Honduras, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,975,000), 43,277 sq mi (112,088 sq km), Central America. Second largest of the Central American countries, Honduras is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, on the east and south by Nicaragua, on the southwest by El Salvador... Read more
North America
North America third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. North America includes all of the mainland and related offshore islands lying N of the Isthmus of Panama (which connects it with So... Read more
Chile
Chile , officially Republic of Chile, republic (2005 est. pop. 15,981,000), 292,256 sq mi (756,945 sq km), S South America, west of the continental divide of the Andes Mts. Chile is bordered by Peru on the north, Bolivia on the northeast, Argentina on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west and ... Read more
Panama
Panama , Span. Panamá, officially Republic of Panama, republic (2005 est. pop. 3,039,000), 29,760 sq mi (77,081 sq km), occupying the Isthmus of Panama, which connects Central and South America. To the west and east of Panama, respectively, are Costa Rica and Colombia; the Panama Canal ... Read more
South America
South America fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. It is divided politically into 12 independent countries— Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , G... Read more
Mexico
Mexico , Span. México or Méjico , officially United Mexican States, republic (2005 est. pop. 106,203,000), 753,665 sq mi (1,952,500 sq km), S North America. It borders on the United States in the north, on the Gulf of Mexico (including its arm, the Bay of Campeche) and the Caribbean... Read more
Peru
Peru , Span. Perú , officially Republic of Peru, republic (2005 est. pop. 27,926,000), 496,220 sq mi (1,285,210 sq km), W South America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean in the west, on Ecuador and Colombia in the north, on Brazil and Bolivia in the east, and on Chile in the south. Lima is ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Mestizo"

Mestizo
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History MESTIZO A Mestizo is a person of American...heritage. A race of Mestizos emerged in Latin America...possible variations of Mestizo numbered more than 100. Mestizo populations spread...Latin and North America Mestizos entered the rank...
mestizo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition mestizo [Span.,=mixture], person of mixed...Portuguese) and indigenous descent. The mestizos constitute a large part of the population...customs. All persons of mixed race are called mestizos in the Philippines.
South Carolina Slave Code
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...negroes, Indians, mulatos and mestizos have [been] deemed absolute...and negroes, mulatos and mestizos who are now free excepted) mulatos or mestizos who now are or shall hereafter...negro Indian mulato, or mestizo shall claim his or her freedom...
Mexico
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...while the peons and mestizos remained ignorant...pueblos, while their mestizo and lower-class counterpart...education of the Indians and mestizo peasants, which consisted...education of both Indian and mestizo youth and, in 1548...established for orphaned mestizos; this was the beginning...
Cuicatec
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...subsistence. In contrast, mestizos are more fully integrated...nation state is through mestizo culture-brokers...boundary between the mestizo and Indian segments, however, is permeable. Mestizos move to the Cuicatec...to the Canada, the mestizo-dominated area, to...
Ladinos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Tehuantepec, the term "mestizo" is now often used...Indians, criollos, mestizos, and Ladinos...admixture of Indian. Mestizos are people with mixed...with indigenous, mestizo, or criollo groups and with mestizos or criollos in the...
Race and Ethnicity
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...formation of a new group called “mestizos” or mixed peoples. Mestizos, as a distinct group, occupied a third position...delimited the racialized categories of Europeans, mestizos, and Indians generally reflected their respective...
Nicaraguan Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...main cultural-racial groups are mestizos, ind í genas, English...indigenous in the racial sense and to be mestizo. Mestizos are culturally, linguistically...racially mixed people. The word mestizo means "mixed race" in Spanish...
Tepehua
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...were gradually acquired by mestizos. The Mexican Revolution provided...Indians, as opposed to 172 to mestizos (Williams Garc í a 1963, 90). Struggles with mestizos unwilling to have lands classified...White guards," armed bands of mestizo ranchers, terrorized Indians...
Totonac
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Veracruz became enmeshed in conflict with mestizos over land and over interference with...allies to the regional leaders, usually mestizos. The Totonac supported these strongmen...Totonacapan, and growing numbers of mestizos entered Totonac villages. The situation...

Dictionary entries related to "Mestizo"

mestizo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology mestizo Sp. or Pg. half-caste; offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. XVI. — Sp.:- Rom. * mixtīcius , f. L. mixtus , pp. of miscēre MIX .
Latin American Wars of Independence
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Spanish, which rested on a mutual wariness of the Indian, mestizo, and African majorities, ensured that a number of major revolts...y Costilla. Hidalgo succeeded in mobilizing the Indian and mestizo population of central Mexico, killing at least 2,000 peninsulares...
Honduras
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...light industry. History The native inhabitants of Honduras are mestizo Indians. One of the lieutenants of Hernan CORTÉS...6%; other (mostly Protestant) 5.4% Ethnic Groups: Mestizo 89.9%; Amerindian 6.7%; Black (including Black Carib...
Chile
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Religions: Roman Catholic 80.7%; atheist and non-religious 12.8%; Protestant 6.1%; Jewish 0.2% Ethnic Groups: Mestizo 91.6%; Amerindian (mostly Araucarian) 6.8%; others (mainly European) 1.6% Languages: Spanish (official...
Costa Rica
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...xE9;ntimos Religions: Roman Catholic 88.6%; other (mostly Protestant) 11.4% Ethnic Groups: European 87.0%; Mestizo 7.0%; Black/Mulatto 3.0%; East Asian (mostly Chinese) 2.0%; Amerindian 1.0% Languages: Spanish (official...
Bolivia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...921 (1998 est) Currency: 1 boliviano = 100 centavos Religions: Roman Catholic 92.5%; Baha'i 2.6% Ethnic Groups: Mestizo 31.0%; Quechua 25.0%; Aymara 17.0%; White (mainly Spanish extraction) 15.0% Languages: Spanish, Aymara...
Cárdenas, Lázaro
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...de Trabajadores de Mexico (CTM), and nationalized the property of the foreign-owned oil companies in 1938. Himself a mestizo (of mixed American Indian and European descent), he won the support of the Indian and Mexican working classes.
Nicaragua
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...centavos Religions: Roman Catholic 88.3%; other (mostly Baptist, Moravian, and Pentecostal) 11.7% Ethnic Groups: Mestizo 77.0%; White 10.0%; Black 9.0%; Amerindian 4.0% Languages: Spanish (official); Amerindian languages International...
Uruguay
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Roman Catholic 60.0%; Jewish 2.0%; Protestant 2.0% Ethnic Groups: European (Spanish/Italian) 90.0%; Mestizo 3.0%; Jewish 2.0%; mixed 2.0% Languages: Spanish (official) International Organizations: UN; OAS
Mestizaje
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Christianity, as the source for modernization and progress. Mexican nationalism has continued to construct its citizens as mestizos. The material and ideological weight of the conquest was also difficult to shake in earlier formations of mestizaje. Even...

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COMMENTARY: CENSUS IGNORED MESTIZOS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 3/15/2001; 700+ words ; ...Hispanics are from heavily mestizo countries. If 80 percent of that 80 percent are mestizos themselves, then 8 percent...America's residents are mestizo. In fact, the vast majority...residents of Mexican descent are mestizos. They are more likely to...
A major player in today's immigration debate the Mestizo/El mestizo deber ser incluído en el debate inmigratorio
Newspaper article from: La Voz Nueva; 7/5/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...definicin es insuficiente porque el mestizo es la progenie de cada color y...socios silenciosos en la creacin del mestizo y pocos esperan de los mestizos por la humiliacin y el deshonor en su creacin. El mestizo es el resultado de una raza ejerciendo...
GEMS OF HISTORY: Mestizo River in Vigan tells of links to Chinese
Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 5/27/2008; ; 585 words ; ...Alcaiceria Street beside Mestizo Street. Mestizo Street was obviously...of the many Chinese mestizos living in that area...can assume that the Mestizo River of Vigan was so...also infer that many mestizos-Chinese mestizos...
Mestizo Logics: Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere.(Review)
Magazine article from: Africa; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; JEAN-LOUP AMSELLE, Mestizo Logics: anthropology of identity in...elsewhere, trans. Claudia Royal, Mestizo Spaces/Espaces metisses series, Stanford...224 pp., ISBN 0 8047 2431 8. When Mestizo Logics originally appeared in 1990...
MESTIZO MISSES THE MIX.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 8/20/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer MESTIZO GRILL Grade: C- Where: 303 16th St...InsideDenver.com keyword: dining A mestizo is something of mixed blood, generally...American Indian and South American cultures. Mestizo Grill, on the other hand, is merely...
Apolipoprotein E polymorphism in the Indian and Mestizo populations of Mexico
Magazine article from: Human Biology; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...genetic admixture in Mexican mestizos, this ethnic group has been...panel of 83 unrelated Mexican mestizo individuals living in Mexico...We considered as Mexican mestizos only those who for two generations...born in Mexico. A Mexican mestizo is defined as someone born...
MESTIZO ARTS AND ACTIVISM PROJECT PRESENTS RESEARCH
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/13/2008; 682 words ; ...high school students participating in the Mestizo Arts and Activism project - an interdisciplinary...change. On Wednesday, Nov. 19, the Mestizo Arts and Activism youth research team...community-based research projects at the Mestizo Coffeehouse (631 W North Temple). The...
Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Cadena, Marisol. Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and...nation-building. Indigenous Mestizos, part of the Latin America...definitions of "indigenous" and "mestizo" in Peru (specifically in...dominant usage of the term mestizo [a Spanish and Indian racialized...
Great Filipino painter a Chinese 'mestizo'
Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 5/29/2008; ; 569 words ; ...1843] as a Chinese mestizo." Before that, people...Domingo was a Spanish mestizo, which explains why studies on Chinese mestizos never mentioned him...a group of Chinese mestizos to which Domingo's...Macario, a Chinese mestizo and Doa Ermercegilda...
Mestizos Denied Their Indigenous Identities
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/27/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...considered indigenous, but "mestizo." Government sources...the large amount of "mestizos," or racially mixed...Hispanicized Indians" became "mestizos" and mestizos became "Spanish...Barreiro says, "Every mestizo is one less Indian...