Meanings
nounmestization (uncountable)
- uncountableMiscegenation resulting in mestizos.
The process of mestization of the races and their culture was widespread throughout all of Latin America and applies especially to colonial Central America and most dramatically to El Salvador.
1984, Sidney David Markman, Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico, page 19
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