Mixed-race people of Spanish colonial regions in the 17th and 18th centuries
Casta
Casta is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.
From the outset, colonial Spanish America resulted in widespread intermarriage: unions of Spaniards, Amerindians, and black Africans. Basic mixed-race categories that appeared in official colonial documentation were mestizo, generally offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; and mulatto, offspring of a Spaniard and a black African.
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