Castizo
Mixed-race individuals in the Spanish Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Castizo[lower-alpha 1] is a racial category used in 18th-century Colonial Mexico to refer to people who were three-quarters Spanish by descent and one-quarter Amerindian. The feminine form of the word is castiza. The category of castizo was widely recognized by the 18th century in colonial Mexico[1] and was a standard category portrayed in eighteenth-century casta paintings.