Period 4 Word of the Week: mulatto

This week, period 4 selected mulatto as its word of the week.  Many students knew the meaning already, but we looked up the word to make sure we had a clear definition.  Mulatto means "the offspring of one white parent and one black parent."  It was a term used during and after slavery to describe the skin tone of people of African descent and to segregate people into groups. 

Our class came up with a sentence illustrating the definition of mulatto:  In A Lesson Before Dying, Grant's girlfriend, Vivian, is a mulatto; she has one black parent and one white parent."