Lobo (racial category)

[1] Lobo was a classification used in official colonial documentation, including the Inquisition trials, marriage registers and censuses.

She was publicly known as a China, was known to be a parda (a brown-skinned person), who "looked like a loba", suggesting she had visible African features.

For instance, in Xichú and Casas Viejas, in the Bajío region near Querétaro and the Sierra Gorda mountains, where there were resident indigenous populations, as well as blacks and mulattos, locally the people used lobos as a "normative category".

[4] In his examination of marriage patterns from marital registers, Vinson found no records of lobos marrying each other; brides and grooms thus classified chose partners from other racial categories.

[5] In eighteenth-century casta paintings, lobos are usually shown doing physical work and not lavishly dressed, indicating lower class status.