mestize

• IPA^(key): /mɛsˈtiːz/, enPR: /mĕsˈtēːz/

mestize (plural mestizes)

1. Archaic or gender-neutral form of mestizo.
   • 1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge:

     A light complexion is accompanied with to a Terceron, who is called by some a red or fair hair, a dark one with black hair, Morisco, or Mestize.

   • 1819, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies, page 18:

     A Mestize therefore in our islands is, I suppose, the Quinteron of the Spaniards.

   • 1894, Joseph Elias Hayne, The Black Man: Or, The Natural History of the Hametic Race, page 13:

     A Black Hamite and a Zamba - A White Man and a Mulatto – An Asiatic Indian and a European - American Mestize and a European Carribean and Zambi - Mestize and a Native American - Mulatto and a Carribean - Terceroon and a White Man  […]

   • 1993 March, Jack D. Forbes, Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 232:

     Nonetheless, the concept of a 'mestize' being one-half American, one-fourth European, and one-fourth African was probably not borrowed from Spanish usage. It may reflect the fact that Americans in Jamaica were […]

   • 2022 October 12, José Rivers Alfaro, Something More Splendid Than Two, punctum books, →ISBN, page 84:

     Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race.

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