Coyote (racial category)
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Coyote is a colonial Spanish American racial term for a mixed-race person casta that usually refers to a person born of parents, one of whom is a Mestizo and the other Native American.
De Mestizo y de India; Coyote. Miguel Cabrera, 1763, oil on canvas, Waldo-Dentzel Art Center.
De mestizo e india, sale coiote. Anonymous, 18th century (From a Mestizo man and an Amerindian woman, a coyote is begotten).
De Castizo y India, Coyota. Anonymous, 18th century Mexico.
Castizo
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Castizo is a racial category used in Spanish America to refer to people who are three-quarters Spanish and one-quarter Amerindian. The category of castizo was widely recognized by the 18th century in
Coyote (racial category)
…Waldo-Dentzel Art Center. De mestizo e india, sale coiote. Anonymous, 18th century (From a Mestizo man and an Amerindian woman, a coyote is begotten). De Castizo y India, Coyota. Anonymous, 18th century Mexico. Coyote (fem. Coyota) (from the Nahuatl word coyotl, coyote) is a colonial Spanish American racial term…
The child of a Spaniard (right) and a mestiza (middle) is a castiza. By Miguel Cabrera. (1763)
From Spaniard and Castiza, Spaniard (1799).
Diego Maradona was a descendant of Galician, Italian and Croatian immigrants, and of Guaraní natives.