Whats exactly is mulatto??
Mulato is a term of Spanish or Portuguese origin describing the offspring of African and European ancestry. The forms “mulatto/mulato” are widely used in Spanish and Portuguese. Many Americans of Hispanic and/or Latino origin identify themselves as mulatto; the term is also used in many other countries. In colonial years the term originally referred to the children of one European and one African parent, or the children of two mulatto parents. During this era a myriad of other terms, both in Latin America and the USA, were in use to denote other individuals of African/European ancestry in ratios smaller or greater than the 50:50 of mulattos: octoroon for example. The system of naming mixed cultures was first started by the Spanish who had a complex system of naming cultures of mixed african, mexican and european origin. There was a controversy from the beginning as to the extent which a person can be called ‘black’ or even mulatto on the basis of mixed parentage sometimes dating back t
