USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -castiza ) – a person with primarily Spanish and some American Indian ancestry born into a mixed family. Mestizo (fem. mestiza) – a person of extended mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry; Indio (fem.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term mestizo means mixed in Spanish, and is generally used throughout Latin America to describe people of mixed ancestry with a white European and an indigenous background.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mestizo is a term historically used in Spain and Hispanic America, including Hispaniola. It originally referred to a person of combined European and Indigenous American descent, regardless of where the person was born. The term was an ethnic/racial category for mixed-race castas that evolved during the Spanish Empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -*Origins of the Mestizo* The first generation of mestizos in the Andean region was almost exclusively the product of a Spanish father and an Indian mother. Due to the limited numbers of Spanish men and contact between groups, it took seventy-five years for a significant mestizo population to develop (Kicza 14).

Detailed explanation-5: -In this article the term mestizo denotes children born to a Spanish father and an indigenous mother.