Mestize

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.

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

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 […]

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[…]

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.