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Mulatto (/ m j uː ˈ l æ t oʊ /, / m ə ˈ l ɑː t oʊ /) (original Italian spelling) is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry only. When speaking or writing about a singular woman in English, the word is mulatta (Spanish: mulata ).
Alyssa Michelle Stephens (born December 22, 1998), known professionally as Latto (formerly known as Mulatto), is an American rapper and singer from Atlanta.She first appeared on Jermaine Dupri's reality television series The Rap Game in 2016, where she was known as Miss Mulatto and won the show's first season, but rejected its award of a recording contract with Dupri's So So Def Recordings.
The cultural mulatto is a concept introduced by Trey Ellis in his 1989 essay "The New Black Aesthetic". While the term "mulatto" typically refers to a person of mixed black and white ancestry, a cultural mulatto is defined by Ellis as a black person who is highly educated and usually a part of the middle or upper-middle class, and therefore assimilates easily into traditionally white environments.
Mixed Dominicans (Spanish: Dominicanos mixtos) or Moreno Dominicans (Spanish: Dominicanos morenos), also referred to as mulatto, mestizo or historically zambo, are Dominicans who are of mixed ancestry (mainly white and black, to a lesser extent native), these stand out for having brown skin.
The terms mestizo or mameluco, mulatto, the general term castas, and dozens of subcategories of racial identity frankly recognized the outcomes of interracial sexual activity in Latin America and established a continuum of race rather than the unrealistic absolute categories of white, black, or Indian as used in the United States. (The U.S ...
After a substantial amount of controversy, Atlanta rapper Mulatto confirmed to The Shade Room that she is working on changing her name, insisting that she’s not a colorist. When asked what is ...
André Rigaud (1761–1811) was the leading mulatto military leader during the Haitian Revolution. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762–1806), father of French writer Alexandre Dumas (author of The Three Musketeers), was the son of a noble French general in Saint Domingue and a slave woman. His father took him to France at age 14 and gave him an ...
In later censuses, people of African descent were classified by appearance as mulatto (which recognized visible European ancestry in addition to African) or black. After the American Revolutionary War , the number and proportion of free people of color increased markedly in the North and the South as slaves were freed.