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mestizo
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mes·ti·zo  (ms-tz)
n. pl. mes·ti·zos or mes·ti·zoes
A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry.

[Spanish, mixed, mestizo, from Old Spanish, mixed, from Late Latin mixtcius, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots.]

mestizo [mɛˈstiːzəʊ mɪ-]
n pl -zos, -zoes
(Social Science / Peoples) a person of mixed parentage, esp the offspring of a Spanish American and an American Indian
[from Spanish, ultimately from Latin miscēre to mix]
mestiza  [mɛˈstiːzə] fem n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mestizo - a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)mestizo - a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
Translations
mestizo [mɪsˈtiːzəʊ] N (mestizos or mestizoes (pl)) (US) → mestizo/a m/f


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Wicomb 2000:130) This narrow conception of the "nation", a display of an exclusive nationalism that is alternately cosy and corseted, at once sullen and reclusive, the manifestation of a supreme paradox of a mestiso people advocating a policy based on "blood purity", is of course exquisitely vulnerable to Wicomb's wake fill deconstructive wit.
 
 
 
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