mulatto

• Biracial identity isn't some sort of (forgive the term) "mulatto" - blending of the African American and White identity, like some sort of Mendellian social experiment where we expect a 3: 1 ratio of Black and White culture in each biracial child. —  reappropriate
• Another was called the mulatto-tree; which had a tall, slim trunk, and leaves of a dark green, with branches spreading amid those of its neighbours, and covered with clusters of small white flowers. —  The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
• Dark as a mulatto, and round-shouldered to the extent of some distinct deformity, he carried his eyes high under the lids, and shot his piercing glance from under the penthouse of a beetling brow; a lipless mouth was pursed in such a fashion as to shorten the upper lip and exaggerate an already powerful chin; and this stooping and intent carriage was no less suggestive of the human sleuth-hound than were the veiled vigilance and dogged determination of the lowered face. —  Stingaree
• By Clement Huart, a distinguished Orientalist, he is described as a mulatto. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
• Later, when negro women were brought from Santo Domingo or other islands, the mulatto was added Considering the class to which the majority of the first Spanish settlers in this island belonged, the social status resulting from these additions to their number could be but little superior to that of the aboriginals themselves The necessity of raising that status by the introduction of white married couples was manifest to the king's officers in the island, who asked the Government in 1534 to send them 50 such couples. —  The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation

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