Marabou (ethnicity)
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Marabou is a term of Haitian origin denoting multiracial ethnicity. The term describes the offspring of a person of mixed race: black African/European and an Amerindian, specifically the native Taíno, born in Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue). The continuing importation of thousands of enslaved Africans under the French and Spanish diluted the generations of so-called "marabous" over the decades. Today most Haitians of Amerindian descent are assumed also to have African ancestry.
Other terms exist for the "marabou" racial mixture in other countries (see Cafuzo, Zambo).
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