"The Mixed Community"
   Second Deck
 

MultiRaces

Afro Asian
Afro-Caribbean
Ainocô
Baster
Black-Dutch
Black Indians
Black Irish
Blasian
British Mixed
Burghers
Caboclo
Cafuzo
Castizo
Cholo
Creole
Dominickers
Eurasian
Griqua
Hapa
Marabou
Melungeon
Mestizo
Métis
Moreno
Mulatto
Pardo
Plaçage
Redbone
We-Sorts
Zambo

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We-Sorts

We-Sorts is an archaic nickname for people of "mixed-race" origins who currently claim descent from the Piscataway Native American population in Charles County, Maryland. Today, one can find many people, particularly with the surnames Proctor, Newman, Savoy, Queen, Butler, Thompson, Swann (and others) who have that heritage, with appearance suggesting a mixture of European, Native American and Black American ancestry in the minds of many. A local joke by some members of the present day Piscataway nation is that the proper name of the tribe is "Wesorts" - as in "we sorts of Black, we sorts of Indian." Wayne Carlin's novel The Wished For Country fictionalizes the origins of the We-Sorts.






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