Talk:Mixed-blood

Overly Specific
I don't think Native American have a monooly on the term "mixed blood." It's just a generic and archaic term for an interracial person in general. This should be deleted and redirected to interracial. 24.4.200.157 (talk) 21:04, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I totally agree. I'm not sure how this article could be changed to make it useful to people engaging in modern discussions about identity.

Reduce content?
steGiven the onsible topic, I wonder if so much space should be devoted to mestizo and contemporary Hispanics. It seems an attempt to remind people that recent Hispanic immigrants may be of indigenous ancestry, among other ethnic groups.--Parkwells (talk) 17:30, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

True. Many Americans assume that the term "Hispanic" is a monolithic description of "race" or "ethnicity"--when people can be many different things. I don't really know why this page exists except to define an archaic term though. I personally would be offended if someone referred to my (Spanish French Amerindian African Romanian Irish) family as "mixed blood", outside of a very specific situation. That situation involving someone over 80 years old saying it. What I think is really problematic with this article is the way the terms seem to privilege "Whiteness" and imply that people who are Hispanic and lived in the South West--presumably New Mexico?--before an (arbitrary) time period are "White" while recent immigrants are "Mestizo." um, everyone's mestizo ;) But really, the differences in terms just reflect different laws (US blood laws in the 1920s, limited Census options, etc) vs. I don't know, a better acknowledgment of reality in Latin America? Especially in post-revolutionary Mexico?

sincerely, guera ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.232.116.107 (talk) 05:26, 15 May 2011 (UTC) Just so you know, I identify as mixed-blood.  I created the article, and I think there's way too much about Hispanics in this.  Besides, there's already an article about Mestizos in the United States Adam (talk) 15:34, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

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"Similarly in the Southeast, the Cherokee and other tribes started having inter-generational marriage and sexual relationships with the Europeans in the early 1700s. Many Cherokee bands and families were quick to see the economic benefits of having trade, land and business dealings with Europeans, strengthened through marriages. Prominent Cherokee and Creek leaders of the 19th century were of mixed-descent but, born to Indian mothers in matrilineal kinship societies, they identified fully and were accepted as Indian and grew up in those cultures.[2]"

This is neglecting to mention that this "relationship" between North Americans and the Natives of the same land was mostly a hostile relationship, that revolved around slavery, and rape. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:582:C500:E100:2156:5E06:7F5:1E0A (talk) 17:14, 12 November 2021 (UTC)