mestizo|mestizoes|mestizos in English

noun

[mes·ti·zo || me'stiːzəʊ]

person of mixed racial background (in Spain or Mexico)

Use "mestizo|mestizoes|mestizos" in a sentence

1. I am a mestizo, a cholo.

2. The mestizos, mulattoes, and whites were brutally murdered as they slept.

3. Boves's mestizos aimed to exterminate the creoles and to destroy their property.

4. Ethnic Composition: Caucasian- 85%, Mestizo , Indian and other- 15%.

5. Finally his cultural identity has developed as the mixing"mestizo"cultural identity.

6. Ethnic Composition: Mestizo (Spanish-Guarani)- 95%, Amerindian and white- 5%.

7. The mestizo lost his footing, and Trent heard him slide, swearing.

8. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits.

9. But the mestizo was a gangster and his prime loyalty would be to himself.

10. The mestizo fell to his knees, but he still held the knife.

11. The information should be useful for most of the Latin American Mestizo population, too, he said.

12. Descendants of indigenous and Spanish unions are considered the mestizo ("mixed race") portion of the Peruvian population.

13. Creoles who live near the coast of ANGOLA trace their origin to mestizo, Brazilian, and African ancestors

14. Diverse immigration has brought more mixed race people into the United States, such as a significant population of Hispanics identifying as mestizos.

15. Initially, in and around New Mexico, Comanches took captives as they warred on Apaches, Pueblo Indians, other indigenous peoples, and Spanish and mestizo colonists.

16. White people (includes mestizo) make up 94%, 3% are black people, 1% are Amerindians, and 1% are Chinese.

17. So mestizo culture - reluctant to let go of tradition - created its own deity to host the yearly handout.

18. Approximately 10% of that population is made up of indigenous peoples, while another 70% are of mestizo or mixed race heritage.

19. Since inception, Amandina's mission has been to revive Mestizo traditions from a contemporary point of view, thus showing the world the impeccable

20. The Imported State: The Westernization of the Political Order (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés) [Badie, Bertrand, Royal, Claudia] on Amazon.com

21. Inhabitants include Maya (Kekchi, Mopan, and Yucatec), Creoles (people of mixed African and European ancestry), Mestizos (mixed Spanish and Maya), Garinagu (mixed African and Carib), East Indians, Lebanese, Chinese, and Europeans, including German and Dutch Mennonites.

22. First, the traditional power elite who have a detached attitude towards the sufferings of the masses, similar to the mestizo hacienderos of other former Spanish colonies in Latin America.

23. Many terms exist for people of various multiracial backgrounds, including multiracial, Biracial, multiethnic, polyethnic, Métis, Creole, Muwallad, mulatto, Colored, Dougla, half-caste, mestizo, Melungeon, quadroon, sambo/zambo, Eurasian, hapa, hāfu, Garifuna, pardo and Guran.

24. Ayahuasca is an Amazonian plant medicine that has been used for centuries, possibly thousands of years, by indigenous and more recently mestizo ayahuasca shaman across the upper Amazon throughout Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil

25. The graphic illustrations he produced for the "Broadsheets," the tabloids of the day, distributed on the streets of Mexico City became icons of Revolutionary Mexico, portraying murder, suicides, robberies, and disasters endured by the citizens, especially the Mestizo, of Mexico City.