What do you call a native Puerto Rican?

1. Boricua. Boricua is the local name for a Puerto Rican. The word derives from the indigenous name for the island of Puerto Rico: Boriken or Boriquín.

What’s a mulatto and mestizo?

two-fifths of the total are mulattoes (mulatos; people of mixed African and European ancestry) and mestizos (mestiços, or caboclos; people of mixed European and Indian ancestry).

Do most Puerto Ricans have Taino ancestry?

According to a study funded by the National Science Foundation, 61 percent of all Puerto Ricans have American Indian mitochondrial DNA, probably from a common Taino ancestry.

Is Mestizo an ethnicity?

Mestizo Americans are Latino Americans whose racial and/or ethnic identity is Mestizo, i.e. a mixed ancestry of European and Amerindian from Latin America (usually Ibero-Indigenous mixed ancestry).

What is a mulatta?

: a mulatto woman or girl : mulattress.

What percentage of Puerto Ricans are native?

Native American admixture in Puerto Ricans ranges between 5\% and 15\% in most of the population.

What is Afro-Puerto Rico?

Afro–Puerto Ricans are Puerto Ricans who are of predominant or partial African descent. The history of Puerto Ricans of African descent begins with free African men, known as libertos, who accompanied the Spanish Conquistadors in the invasion of the island.

What African tribes live in Puerto Rico?

Also making their impact upon the culture of Puerto Rico were the Bantus, who next to the Yorubas were the most numerous. Elements of Jelofe, Mandingo, Dahomey, lbo, Baules, Fantes and Mende tribes, mostly West Africa, made their way to Puerto Rico too.

What was the early slave population of Puerto Rico like?

Libertos assisted the Spaniards in conquering the Tainos. The early slave population of Puerto Rico was very small. More free blacks than slaves existed in Puerto Rico for most of her history. Slavery was authorized in 1510. In 1530, 1,500 slaves were on the island of Puerto Rico, by 1555 15,000 existed.

What are the characteristics of Puerto Rican culture?

Puerto Ricans give great importance to dignity, honor, and respect to the elders in the family. They are emotionally attached to their family and friends, and like to socialize with them. They give high priority to education. Puerto Rico is a bilingual and multicultural society, greatly influenced by the Spanish, African, Indian, and U.S.