0 a person from Latin America who is part European, especially Spanish, and part American Indian
1 a person from Latin America who is part European and part American Indian
The voice mestizo has a long genealogy that starts, roughly, in the sixteenth century and emerges in the present.
In fact, she proposes a hierarchy, star ting at the bottom: indigenous women, indigenous men, mestizo groups, and the dominant elite.
The mestizo chicleros sometimes harassed their fellow tappers, but to a large extent they tolerated each other.
We are used to its empirical version : the scientific observation of ' mixture ' in mestizo's bodies, cultures, races, and so forth.
In this situation, urban mestizo teachers might choose to side with the peasantry, and this was a significant political act.
Instead, a mestizo or mixed person could be a mosaic of elements, which were racialised with reference to the tri-racial origins of the nation.
Nevertheless, it is important to note that persons with these characteristics could be viewed as mestizos, depending on their degree of acculturation.
Rather, they evoke a complex conceptual hybridity epistemologically inscribed in the notion mestizo itself.
