Castizo 's a Spanish word with a general meaning of "pure" or "genuine". The feminine form's castiza. From this meaning it evolved other meanings, such as "typical of an area" and it was also used for one of the colonial Spanish race categories, the castas, that evolved in the seventeenth century. Race Under the caste System of colonial Latin America, the term originally applied to the children resulting from the union of a European and a mestizo, that's, someone of three quarters European and… (More on Castizo)