Zambo
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Zambo are racial terms historically used in the Spanish and Portuguese empires referring to people of mixed Indigenous and African ancestry. Occasionally in the 21st century, the term is used in the Americas to refer to persons who are of mixed Black and Indigenous American ancestry. (The analogous English term, sambo, is considered a slur.) Historically, the racial cross between enslaved Africans and Amerindians was referred to as a zambayga, then zambo, then sambo.
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See also
- Afro-Latin Americans
- Black Indians
- Black Seminoles
- Casta
- Cholo
- Garifuna people
- Lobo (racial category)
- Marabou
- Mestee
- Mestizo
- Miskito
- Miscegenation
- Mulatto
- List of topics related to the African diaspora
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