mestiza

American  

[me-stee-zuh, mi-] / mɛˈsti zə, mɪ- /

noun

1. a woman of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed Indigenous and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed Indigenous and foreign descent.

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Etymology

Origin of mestiza

From Spanish

Example Sentences

Mesa-Bains, a mestiza Chicana from the Bay Area, and hooks, a Black woman from Kentucky, devote a chapter to memory.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Under the strict casta system of Spanish colonial rule, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, born in 1780 in what is today the city of Sucre, Bolivia, was a mestiza.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

But she was a fair-skinned mestiza, a mix of Spanish and Indian.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2017

I am rich and poor, indigena and mestiza, and no one can put me in a box.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Be- yond all comprehension, she doesn’t seem to care if I am a mestiza or an indigena.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau