Mestizo Children Research Paper

A mestizo is the offspring between a Spaniard and an indigenous person. Many indigenous women bore the children of Spaniards as they were looked at as sexual objects in the Encounter. Also during the Encounter, Mexico had become New Spain which was made up of mostly Spanish men and indigenous women. There were very few Spanish women, so as time passed, more and more mestizo children were produced. An example of a Spaniard having relations with an indigenous woman is Cortes and Malintzin. Malintzin’s mestizo son, Martin, was neglected by his Spanish father. Mestizo children were recognized as second class people when compared to the Spanish. Mestizo children were often neglected and inherited little to nothing from their
fathers.