DR doesn't use the one-drop rule that African-Americans use here in the States. If a "black" has light skin, s/he is obviously mixed. The 73% mulatto is probably accurate. I would up the percentage of blacks at least by a little (maybe 15-20%). Also remember that official statistics do not include Haitian immigrants and their descendants which are very abundant in DR.

I think we have to rely on these sources, until the next census. But something that i have notice is that, since 1996 when i first started viewing The CIA WORLD FACTBOOK those numbers haven't changed. The truth is, that most blacks (dominican black) and whites are numbers that are shrinking and the mulatto "mixed" category is probably incrising. Again its all speculation!

If the census were to be made counting the population islandwide, I think that the numbers would be pretty much like the following:

50% black
40% mixed
10% white

Regrettably, this will only remain on the realm of speculation, cuz' it's impossible right now to carry out a racial census with the politically correct environment that is prevalent worldwide nowadays.

There's a lot more than 40% mixed.

Are you sure of it? Are you not understimating the power of Haiti's sheer numbers, which happen to be a 90% of pure blacks? Are you ignoring the fact that they are (and apparently will always be) numerically superior to us?

73% is probably low. Where do we draw the lines, three generations back? Five? Eight? The word 'mulatto' also has to go. I use it myself because it is the easiest shorthand, but its usage in this post is an example of its fuzziness and inaccuracy:



' "mulattos" are JUST light skin black people' Err ... what exactly is it you think they should be? If they are light skinned and identify as mulatto they are supposed to be black, as well as white. Also even a genuine mulatto born to an unmixed caucasian and African can be quite dark.

As the thread unfolds we'll see how much confusion stems from the labels we use, and our expectations of what a member of each label should look like. Right now my feeling is screw it ... next census don't even bother to track this info. The rest of the world has their own issues with labels and race and will never bother to learn our peculiarities. They will always try to fit their labels to our labels, while those of us abroad will return with new definitions, on and on, and as a culture we'll never get far past these discussions. We'll all be too busy deciding what bucket we fit in

The category mulatto should not be applied unless it is correct in it's essence, there are many Dominicans that fall under the trigueño category. A mulatto is a direct offspring of white and black parentage, as for the racial categories they should really be branded as follow 70% mixed, 20% white, 10% black not including the 15% or so illegal Haitians that increase the black population in the country. An example of a mixed Dominican or trigueña. Celines Toribio trigueña. Black Dominican Vladimir Guerrero. Top Right... White Dominican Amelia Vega. Tipica mulata Dominicana.

She is beautiful gizmo, I think Dominican women are the most beautiful mixed race in the whole world, bar none. That is why they are so popular all over the world.LOL.
Anyway forget the races, we are all 100% Dominican except for the illegal immigrants. Last I read the percentages was like 85% mixed races and the rest black and white, without the Haitians.

Gizmo
The category mulatto should not be applied unless it is correct in it's essence, there are many Dominicans that fall under the trigueño category. A mulatto is a direct offspring of white and black parentage, as for the racial categories they should really be branded as follow 70% mixed, 20% white, 10% black not including the 15% or so illegal Haitians that increase the black population in the country. An example of a mixed Dominican or trigueña insert.

Generoso
She is beautiful gizmo, I think Dominican women are the most beautiful mixed race in the whole world, bar none. That is why they are so popular all over the world.LOL.
Anyway forget the races, we are all 100% Dominican except for the illegal immigrants. Last I read the percentages was like 85% mixed races and the rest black and white, without the Haitians.

Gizmo Agreed about the Haitians they are not part of the family.