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. / 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) 1 a mulatto is defined as
Mulatto
The first general offspring of a black and white parent
Or, an individual with both white and black ancestors
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.
