Torna atrás
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Torna atrás or tornatrás is a term used in 18th-century casta paintings to portray a mestizo or mixed-race person who showed phenotypic characteristics of only one of the "original races", such as Eur
Spanish father and Albina mother, torna atrás child. Miguel Cabrera, 1763 Mexico
De Mulato y Mestiza, produce mulato es torna atrás. Attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez, ca. 1715. Private collection
Casta painting of a Spanish father, albino mother, and torna atrás child. Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz (Mexico, circa 1760)
De Albina y Español, Torna atrás. Attributed to Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz (1701-1770)
Quadroon
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In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a Quadroon or Quarteron was a person with one-quarter Sub-Saharan African or Indigenous Australian ancestry, and three-quarters European ancest
Torna atrás
…original races", such as European or Amerindian ancestry. The term was also used to describe an individual whose parentage was half white and half "albino". The term torna atrás (in English, similar in meaning to "throwback" or "harken back to") could also refer to the appearance of racial characteristics…
1763 casta painting by Miguel Cabrera depicting in the centre a quadroon child.
James Townsend (centre), who was an Octoroon