metis vs of color

metis

• Of mixed heritage 

• Of Métis heritage. 

• A person of mixed-race ancestry. 

• A person of one-eighth black ancestry; an octoroon. 

• Practical intelligence; street smarts. 

of color

• Belonging to a category of people with mixed black and white ancestry in the Americas in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 

• Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black.