Zambo

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Zambo (disambiguation) .

Zambo (Mexican: lobo ) on a colonial picture about the different castes in Latin America. De negro é india sale lobo (A negro and an Indian woman produce a lobo).

Zambo , zamba ( cafuzo in Brazil, garifuna in Central America and the Caribbean , lobo in Mexico ) is a name for a person with a black and an Indian parent and, in a broader sense, for a person who has black and Indian ancestors.

The term can be used derogatory or racist.

distribution

The majority of them live in Colombia , Venezuela , Ecuador and northwestern Brazil . But there are also zambos in the other states of the American double continent . In Mexico , most of the Lobos have risen up within the mestizo population. Only in the state of Veracruz and on the Costa Chica (on the Pacific coast of Mexico) are some Lobo communities to be found.

literature

• Nataly Fletcher: Más allá del cholo: Evidencia lingüística del racismo poscolonial en el Ecuador . In: Sincronía . tape 8 , no. 28 , 2003, ISSN  1562-384X (Spanish, udg.mx ).

See also

• African American
• mestizo
• mulatto
• Afro-Colombians

Web links

Wiktionary: Zambo  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• zambo, zamba. In: Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española . (Spanish). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carlos Joaquin Códova: El Habla del Ecuador: diccionario de ecuatorianismos . tape 2 . Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca 1995, p. 909 (Spanish).