Mulatto, a person of mixed white and black ancestry The term may be considered offensive or rude to some, because of its origin. The term mulatto is a legacy of attempts to establish taxonomies of race, a concept that science has shown to be socially constructed and to have no biological basis.
1 a mulatto is defined as Mulatto is a spanish word referring to a person who is born to one black parent and one white parent The first general offspring of a black and white parent
The english term mulatto is derived from the spanish and portuguese mulatto Unofficial worldwide estimates of regions with significant mulatto populations are south america, the caribbean, southern africa, north america, and northwestern europe Related ethnic groups include pardo and creole. Mestizo refers to individuals of mixed european and indigenous american descent, while mulatto describes those of mixed european and african ancestry.
/ məˈlæt.əʊ / us / məˈlæt̬.oʊ / an offensive word for someone with one black parent and one white parent (definition of mulatto from the cambridge advanced learner's dictionary & thesaurus © cambridge university press) During the slavery period, a growing number of mulatto men and women became educated, were granted inheritances from their rich landowner fathers, and were freed
