Esperanza,
Here's a link to a partial list of colonial caste system:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mexcoahu/caste.html
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, latina1955@a... wrote:
> 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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