Sentence examples for of mixed ancestry from inspiring English sources

(Mr. Wilson himself was of mixed ancestry).

When those of mixed ancestry — and the majority of blacks are of mixed ancestry — disappear into the white majority, they are traditionally accused of running from their "blackness".

Ubiquity of mixed ancestry emphasizes the importance of accounting for ancestry in history, forensics, and health.

Aparicio is of mixed ancestry: her mother is Triqui and her father Mixteco.

People of mixed ancestry constitute about one-sixth of the population.

Many Belizeans are of mixed ancestry, most of them descendants of immigrants.

At least two-thirds of Central Americans are of mixed ancestry.

By 1890, census takers counted 1.1 million Americans of mixed ancestry.

She was the child of "two African-American parents of mixed ancestry," and her birth certificate identified her as "colored".

Sharfstein reconstructs the history of three families of mixed ancestry who crossed the color line from black to white.

He was a man of mixed ancestry — African, indigenous and Spanish — who despised a power structure dominated by Europeanized elites.