Mestizo - Wikipedia
In the early colonial period, the children of Spaniards and American Indians were raised either in the Hispanic world, if the father recognized the offspring as his natural child; or the child was raised in the Indigenous world of the mother if he did not.
‘Mestizo’ and ‘mulatto’: Mixed-race identities among U.S. Hispanics
Jul 10, 2015 · According to the Pew Research survey of U.S. Hispanics, those who identify as mixed race, mestizo or mulatto are more likely to be U.S. born than those who do not (44% vs. 37%). They are also more likely than Latino adults who do not identify as mixed race to be non-Mexican (45% vs. 36%) and to have a higher educational attainment (45% have ...
Mestizos in Mexico - Wikipedia
In Mexico, the term mestizo (lit. "mixed") refers to an identity of those of mixed European (mainly Spanish) and Indigenous Mexican descent. Some believe it can be defined by criteria ranging from ideological and cultural to self-identification, genetic ancestry, or physical appearance.
Tracing One Mixed-Race Family Across the Generations
Jan 2, 2024 · Juan Morales and Paula Petrona had at least six children born in the years following their marriage: María (February 9, 1723), Francisco Marcelo (March 1, 1725), Antonia Bernarda (March 17, 1727), Joséph Joachin (April 3, 1729), Antonio Simon Morales (May 6, 1731), and Dionicia María Anna (April 19, 1733).
The United States of Mestizo - The National Endowment for the …
The word mestizo in sixteenth-century Spanish sometimes referred to children born out of wedlock, thus uniting it with the term bastard. In the colonial period, as the caste system was being established, to be a bastard signified that one’s own genealogical stream was questionable.
House of Trade: Mestizo Children, Merchant Networks, and …
Nov 4, 2022 · Born from the often-violent encounters between Indigenous and European peoples, mestizo children facilitated the forging of merchant networks both in the service of their Spanish fathers as well as other non-related, legal guardians.
The extant cases of mestizo children who moved from indigenous households to Spanish ones are critical to our understanding of how people formed families and family-like relationships in the decades following the Spanish arrival in Peru in 1532. Historians have analyzed this momentous
Surveying Mestizaje - Smith College
Within nine months of the arrival of the conquistadors, the first mestizo children were born—sons and daughters of these foreigners and native women. In the decades following, more and more mestizo children were produced by marriages, informal liaisons, casual affairs, and rapes.
2 Removal: For the Love and Labor of Mixed-Race Children
Dec 17, 2015 · This chapter examines the relationships between fathers and children, as well as between parents, to fully explore paternal motives and the process by which fathers claimed mestizo children between the 1540s and the 1580s.
Making Mestizos: Filipino American Mixed-Race Children and …
The growing visibility of American mestizo children throughout the archipelago inspired many different aid and charity efforts, as sympathetic Filipinos and Americans bore witness to the widespread reality of child abandonment by fathers from the United States.