Mulato labels extend from mixed offspring to any phenotypically or temperamentally black-marked person.

Evidence

Mulatto/mulato has been used to refer to any offspring resulting from the mixing of white with black. Or to any person taken to be blackskinned, including metaphorically one suntanned. Or to a person marked by other stereotypically phenotypical characteristics reductively associated with black people, such as tightly curled or “kinky” hair and a broad, flat nose. The term has been used, by extension, to refer also to a person considered to exhibit or embody character traits projectedly black, such as danger, wildness, or boorishness. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1160

Categorization

• DEFINE: Documents how a racial label’s referent drifts from biological mixing to phenotype to projected temperament.