mulatto:

(plural: ‘mulattos or mulattoes‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘mu’ rhyme with ‘mo’ in “move” or ‘mu’ in “music” — for the British pronunciation of this word, please click here and for the American pronunciation, please click here)

a person with one black parent and one white parent, i.e. either mother from white race and father from black race or mother from black race and father from white race,

an American mixed race family — ‘black’ father, ‘white’ mother and three mulattoes (children)

e.g.

My classmate Jerry is a mulatto … his father is from the black race and his mother from the white race.

It’s not very surprising these days to see mulattoes not only in the United States of America but also in several countries in Europe.

Most ‘mulattoes’ prefer to be called ‘Afro-Americans’ or ‘mixed race’.

For an article that shows how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here, for an article, with a couple of video clips, that shows us how racial discrimination still exists in parts of the world, please click here and for an article that gives us a list some of the mulatto celebrities, please click here.

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