What is a mestizo in social study term

a Mestizo is a ethnicity. basically a mix of someone of spanish and indigenous decent of latin america.

Answer: racial and cultural mixing

Explanation: "mestizo/a" refers to racial and cultural mixing among Europeans, Indians, and Africans ... Spanish colonizers used the word in the Philippines and in Spanish America, at first to signify mixtures of religion, class, local origin, and culture, but over time, its meanings shifted toward racialism and caste.