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De Mestizo y de India; Coyote. Miguel Cabrera, 1763, oil on canvas, Waldo-Dentzel Art Center.
De mestizo e india, sale coiote. Anonymous, 18th century (From a Mestizo man and an Amerindian woman, a coyote is begotten).
De Castizo y India, Coyota. Anonymous, 18th century Mexico.

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 by Miguel Cabrera (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 just how much native ancestry qualified a person to be a coyote."

See also

References

  1. Katzew, Ilona. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press 2004.
  2. Vinson, Ben III. Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press 2018, p. 70.

Further reading

  • Katzew, Ilona. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press 2004.
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Casta terms for interracial marriage in Spanish America
Parent Black ——— Peninsular ——— Peninsular ——— Amerindian ——— Black
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1st generation Mulatto Criollo Mestizo Zambo
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
2nd generation (with one Spanish parent) Cuarterón de negro Criollo Castizo Moreno
2nd generation (with one Amerindian parent) Chino Mestizo Cholo Cambujo
2nd generation (with one black parent) Negro fino Mulato Cimarrón Prieto
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