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RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS IN COLONIAL MEXICO In most parishes, racial classifications were made strictly on sight and not based on actual knowledge of the person's pedigree. It is likely that in many cases the classifications were applied indiscriminately and were primarily based on skin color, as well as facial features, type of clothing worn and the barrio where they lived. Casta terms for miscegenation in Spanish America Parent 1st generation 2nd generation (with one Spanish parent) 2nd generation (with one Amerindian parent) 2nd generation (with one black parent) Black Peninsular Peninsular + mulato criollo mestizo Amerindian Black I zambo ↓ ↓ morisco criollo castizo moreno chino mestizo negro fino mulato cholo cimarrón cambujo prieto Term Description Español Indio Negro Mulatto Mestizo Coyote A person who appears to be of European ancestry (French / Spanish / German) A person with indigenous ancestry An African person who may or may not be a slave (esclavo) Half European & half African. This person may or may not be a slave (esclavo) or free (libre). Half European & half Indian. Eventually it came to mean all mixed people. Indio con mestizo: A person who is 34 Indian and ¼ European Morisco Blanco con mulata: 3/4 European and ¼ African - one white parent and one mulato parent Tresalba Lobo Indio con mestiza: "Three White" - same as Morisco. Very rarely used Indo con negra: A person with ¾ Indians and ¼ African ancestry Sources: Ilona Katzew, "Casta Painting: Identity and Social Stratification in Colonial Mexico" (New York University, 1996); Familysearch.org, "Spanish Genealogical Word List: Racial Terminology." Online: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Spanish_Genealogical_Word_List. 10

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