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Re: [ranchos] Racial Classifications was Moorish or Slave

 
Wow, those charts and photos are mind-boggling.  I am really getting an education. 
 
The mixing of the races in Mexico has led to a particular typically Mexican look, I think.  My husband, who looks white (I call him viejo Gachupin pelon sordo) calls the typical Mexican the result of the Mestizaje.  Yet no two Mexicans could look more different than he and I, he 6 ft, me 5 ft; we could have been the Espanol and the Indian pictured in the photos. Yet I can trace both of our lineages back to the early 1700's in Mexico. 
 
 My Spanish-Basque friend said that when she met her Mexican-American serviceman husband in Pamplona (he looks like me) she was fascinated by his appearance.  She said she had never seen anyone with the planes of the face like mine and his.  In profile we have small noses in line with the chin and forehead, whereas she and my husband have the look of Europeans, yet different.  He has a large Roman nose with receded chin and forehead in profile and he is bald on top yet very hairy arms and legs.  She looks German.  Up here in Washington State in an area where there are few Mexicans, I am at times mistaken for Asian or Filipina.  I have a hard time convincing the Filipinos around here I am not a Filipina.  One man even asked me why I did not want to admit to being Filipina!
 
An interesting thing too about food preferences among us:  My Spanish-Basque friend does not like corn tortillas or Mexican food.  She prefers bread and fish or chicken.  She says that corn is only fed to animals where she comes from.  I heard that also from a lady I knew from South America.  She was dismayed that her sons were learning to eat "como Indios" since they liked Taco Bell tacos and asked her to make some like their Mexican friends' moms made. 
 
Also, lately, I feel that it is this typical Mexican look, an Indian appearance, that makes many Anglo-Americans so prejudiced against the aliens coming across from south of the border.  They are being so mean to those poor people. American employers continue to depend on alien labor for the work that many Americans won't stoop to do, and that is where the problem lies, not with the poor people looking to improve their lives.
 
I am off my soapbox now,
 
   Emilie
 
----- Original Message -----
From: lareina2@ix.netcom.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:58 PM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos] Racial Classifications was Moorish or Slave
 
There's a folder for it in Ranchos 2.  I found a book that gave a little background and some pictures.  Here's the link, and definitely blow up the link of the page of classifications so it's readable:
 
 
Rosalinda


-----Original Message-----
From: latina1955@...
Sent: Jun 23, 2005 1:32 AM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos] Moorish or Slave

I could be wrong (my memory comes and goes with this stuff called menopause - should be called memorypause), but I think coyote was a term used to describe the mixed blood of Indians and African. 
 
There was a chart (perhaps someone can recall it here?) that described the various labels placed on the mixture of "races" during the early part of the conquest, when race delineation was seen as important by the Spanish.  I'll keep looking for this chart, but in the meantime, perhaps someone else on the board has easy access to it for reference?
 
Esperanza

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