Mestizo/métisse
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42. Mestizo/métisse :
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—These terms (Spanish and French in origin) semantically register the idea of a mixing of races and/or cultures.
They emerged from a colonial discourse that privileged the idea of racial purity and justified racial discrimination by employing the quasi-scientific precursors of physical anthropology to create a complex and largely fictional taxonomy of racial admixtures (mulatto, quadroon, octaroon, etc.)
