Chino (casta)

In the eighteenth century, individuals of mixed Amerindian and African ancestry came to be called chinos.

[1] A Mexican Inquisition bigamy case in Mexico City labeled one woman variously as a china, loba ("wolf"), and parda ("dark skinned"), one example of a person shifting racial categorization.

[3] When painters produced in the eighteenth century formal depictions of "castes" as envisioned by members of the elite, the term chino appears with no fixed definition.

[4] In 1821 with Mexican Independence from Spain, the new nation abolished the colonial-era, legal racial categories, with unequal privileges and restrictions.

The various casta terms generally fell out of popular usage and eventually a new, all-encompassing Mexican Mestizo identity emerged.