Pardo
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In the former Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas, pardos are triracial descendants of Europeans, Indigenous Americans and Africans.
18th-century illustration of a pardo officer (right) in Colonial Brazil
"Pardo" and related terminology in a Venn diagram
Mulatto
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Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry. When speaking or writing about a singular woman in English, the word is mulatta. The use of this term b
Pardo
…Europeans, Indigenous Americans and Africans. In some places they were defined as neither exclusively mestizo (Indigenous American-European descent), nor mulatto (African-European descent), nor zambo (Indigenous American-African descent). In colonial Mexico, pardo "became virtually synonymous with mulatto, thereby…
A mulatta woman in the viceregal era in 1711
Juan de Pareja by Diego Velázquez, CE 1650 – Juan de Pareja was born into slavery in Spain. He was of mixed African and Spanish descent.
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From Spaniard and Black woman, Coloured girl. Miguel Cabrera. Mexico 1763