List of terms for multiraciality
This is a list of terms used worldwide for various types, kinds and degrees of multiracial background. Note many of these are offensive.
Many of these refer to specific mixed-race combinations only, and are not general terms for 'mixed race': for example Métis refers to a specific ethnic group of First Nation-European ancestry.
- ahí te estás
- Ainoco
- albarazado
- Amerasian
- bastard
- biracial
- Blasian(or Afro-Asian) AKA "blackinese"
- blatino
- Cablinasian
- Caboclo
- cafuzo (Brazil)
- calpamulato
- cambujo
- castizo
- chamiso
- Chino (in Spanish America)
- cholo
- coloured
- coyote
- cross
- crossbreed
- cuadralbo
- Dougla
- Eurasian (or Euroasiatic)
- galfarro
- Griqua
- half-blood
- half-breed
- half-caste
- Hapas
- hybrid
- Indo (in The Netherlands and Indonesia for Eurasian)
- jíbaro (or gíbaro). Originally it was the Spanish name of the South American tribe Shuar.
- Kablunângajuit (in Canada, people of mixed European and Inuit ancestry)
- Luk kreung (in Thailand)
- mameluco (Brazil)
- mestizo (in Philippines, Mestiso or Tisoy).
- Métis
- Mischling
- mixed race
- mongrel
- Morisco (in Spanish America)
- mulatto/mulattress
- mule
- multiracial
- no te entiendo
- Pardo
- Peranakan
- octoroon
- outcross
- quadroon
- quintroon
- Salto atrás
- Tente en el aire
- torna atrás
- tresalbo
- Zambaigo
- zambo (or Sambo)
- zebra
In Spanish America, very detailed vocabulary and charts (castas depicted in pintura de castas) were developed marking the proportions of White, Negro and Amerindian blood of an individual.
See also
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Categories: Lists of terms | Multiracial affairs