Mulatto
[muh-lat-oh, -lah-toh, myoo-] /məˈlæt oʊ, -ˈlɑ toʊ, myu-/
noun, plural mulattoes, mulattos.
1.
Anthropology. (not in technical use) the offspring of one white parent and one black parent.
2.
Older Use: Often Offensive. a person who has both black and white ancestors.
adjective
3.
of a light-brown color.
/mjuːˈlætəʊ/
noun (pl) -tos, -toes
1.
a person having one Black and one White parent
adjective
2.
of a light brown colour
n.
1590s, “offspring of a European and a black African,” from Spanish or Portuguese mulato “of mixed breed,” literally “young mule,” from mulo “mule,” from Latin mulus (fem. mula) “mule” (see mule (n.1)); possibly in reference to hybrid origin of mules. As an adjective from 1670s. Fem. mulatta is attested from 1620s; mulattress from 1805.
American culture, even in its most rigidly segregated precincts, is patently and irrevocably composite. It is, regardless of all the hysterical protestations of those who would have it otherwise, incontestibly mulatto. Indeed, for all their traditional antagonisms and obvious differences, the so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other. [Albert Murray, “The Omni-Americans: Black Experience & American Culture,” 1970]
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