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:

  • A second great difference was that many of the Spanish settlers came by way of Mexico, so many of them represented a mestizo (mixed-race) culture rather than a purely sixteenth-century Spanish culture, as the earlier explorers had.

  • Despite the quadrupling of multiracial marriages since 1970, only 5 million people today qualify--and that's counting racially distinct parents as well as their mixed-race kids.

  • Because they all came from upper-class families, they were educated in Spanish traditions and language and consequently ignored the mestizo (mixed-race) and indigenous aspects of the culture, often depicting their past in romantic pastoral terms.

  • By marrying across the color line, by raising mixed-race children without regard to labels, they promise to obliterate our antiquated notions of racial difference.

  • Publishing after the Mexican Revolution, Vasconcelos envisioned the successful future of Mexico to lie in the strong bonds of its mixed-race population.


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