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In Mexico a least, the denomination of mulato was given to many different racial mixes, not just those coming from african-erupean couples. investigating all the family members with this denominations lets us know many times what was the actual background, in many cases there where simply mestizos, but my theory is that their european side (spanish in this case) was likely a mix of it with arab/jew/indu and or the mix of any of these, also I come to believe that many mestizos of darker skin where called mulatos, I've seen families of "coyotes" often called mulatos. If we take in account that many "spanish" where in fact mix already with the arabs, africans and other races, we come to a fact that after the conversion there were many dark-skined spanish, I would suggest these where some of those later called in Mexico mulatos too.
Another important fact is that the way of denomination doesn't follow the "cast rules" this is that the child of an spanish and a native would not necessarily be called mestizo, sometimes they where also called "indio", spanish, coyote, mulato, etc. same goes for other combinations and thus in real practice, the cast denomination was used more like an physical description rather than an accurate biological race study. We also see many people who are denominated differently in each of their records.
Some reason why this "many" mulatos "disappear" was because they never existed as such in first place, obviously the facts changes by case.
RJ Quiralta
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