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. As of 2016, people of mulatto or white descent constitute a minority of 5 percent of the haitian population The english term mulatto is derived from the spanish and portuguese mulatto
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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.
1 a mulatto is defined as The first general offspring of a black and white parent Or, an individual with both white and black ancestors / 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)
Meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the oxford english dictionary 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 Milat) is a term in haiti that is historically linked to haitians who are born to one white european parent and one black african parent, or two mulatto parents