Example sentences for: mixed-race

How can you use “mixed-race” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Virginia began categorizing a child as free or slave according to the mother's status (which was easier to determine than the father's), and so in 1691 the assembly passed a law to make sure that women didn't bear mixed-race children.

  • The scenes of many early Chicano murals consisted of pre-Columbian indigenous themes and motifs that reflected a mestizo (mixed-race) heritage and a Mexican cultural nationalism.

  • The term conceptualized a new identity and an awareness of Mexicanness that was native, drawing on the indigenous and the mestizaje (mixed-race nature) of the country.

  • Lo Mexicano referred to the Mexicanidad, the national character of the Mexican, which was mestizo (mixed-race) and not European.

  • Because Indians, Mexicans, and mestizos (mixed-race people) perform it, the dance has evolved with different interpretations and has different meanings for each group.


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