''Coyote'' (fem. ''Coyota'') (from the
Nahuatl word ''coyotl'',
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 a
Mestizo (mixed Spanish + Indigenous) and the other indigenous (''indio'').
Representation
The
casta paintings
() is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier. In the context of the Spanish Empire in the Americas it also refers to a now-discredited 20th-century theoretical f ...
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Miguel Cabrera
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(1763) show the place of the ''coyote'' in the idealized colonial racial hierarchy (''sistema de castas''). In colonial Mexico, the term varied regionally, with "regional differences determin
ngjust how much native ancestry qualified a person to be a coyote."
[Vinson, Ben III. ''Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico''. New York: Cambridge University Press 2018, p. 70.]
See also
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Casta
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Cholo
''Cholo'' () is a loosely defined Spanish term that has had various meanings. Its origin is a somewhat derogatory term for people of mixed-blood heritage in the Spanish Empire in Latin America and its successor states as part of ''castas' ...
References
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Further reading
*Katzew, Ilona. ''Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico''. New Haven: Yale University Press 2004.
Latin American caste system
Race (human categorization)