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The English term and spelling mulatto is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese mulato. It was a common term in the Southeastern United States during the era of slavery. Some sources suggest that it may derive from the Portuguese word mula (from the Latin mūlus), meaning 'mule', the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey.
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.
In the 20th century, Krazy Kat comics creator George Herriman, a Louisiana Creole cartoonist born to mulatto parents, passed as white throughout his adult life. Around this time, those who passed as white were referred to through French Creole slang as passant (passing) à blanc or pour blanc (as white). [10] [11] [12]
Rapper Mulatto has always faced pushback for the racially charged implications behind her stage name, but now the 21-year-old rising star is speaking up to clear rumors circulating on the internet ...
When asked what is the most common misconception that people have about her, Mulatto had a definitive answer when she appeared on The Shade Room a few days ago. Later on in the interview, she ...
Terceroon was a term synonymous with quadroon, derived from being three generations of descent from an African ancestor, counting the ancestor as the first generation. The term mulatto was used to designate a person who was biracial, with one fully black parent and one fully white parent, or a person whose parents are both mulatto. [3]
The painting Negro con Mulata produce Zambo ('a negro man with a mulatto woman makes a zambo'), Cristóbal Lozano, c. 1771–1776. Sambo is a derogatory label for a person of African descent in the Spanish language. Historically, it is a name in American English derived from a Spanish term for a person of African and Native American ancestry.
Slang is defined as words that typically don't last more than a generation, like "groovy" or "nifty" in the 70s. When words are taken from a lexicon, a group of stable words that don't come in and ...