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Blasian
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Afro-Asian woman.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/BlasianSensation.jpgThe term Blasian refers to those of mixed Black and Asian ancestry.[1] The term "Blasian" originated from the blending of "Black" and "Asian".
The historical term for these unions are known as 'Jotawa' or 'hapa popolo' . "Popolo" once exposed to western civilization, eventually became a a deragatory term for someone who was of half asian, half black. Just as 'hapa haole' became a deragatory term for those half asian and half white.
Afro-Asian is another term for Blasian, but it is ambiguous because just as African-American describes an American with Black ancestry, Afro-Asian can describe a Black person living in Asia.
Contents [hide]
1 History of Blasians
1.1 In Africa
2 Blasians In Entertainment
3 Other Terms for Black and Asian
4 See also
5 References
5.1 In Africa
6 External Links
[edit]
History of Blasians
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You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.[edit]
In Africa
While Blasians are commonly thought of as the result of blacks and Asians having children in immigrant nations such as Canada, there is also a substantial community of Blasians formed by people native to India visiting or settling in East Africa and intermingling with the locals. Before the Scramble for Africa, the most common examples were Indian traders (almost always male) in Swahili coastal towns and in the Kingdom of Zanzibar. Relations were not always friendly -- many Africans resented the Indian traders' practices, while the Indians in turn appear to have looked down upon the less-developed African communities -- but intermingling occurred with increasing frequency.
As the British Empire extended its domain over Africa and its control over British India, interrelations increased markedly. The process sped when India laborers emigrated to East Africa to seek employment building the Uganda-Kenya railway. After decolonization, business contacts kept Eastern and Southern Africa in contact with South Asia.
The highest Indian-African populations are in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Blasians In Entertainment
In the past few years, blasians have been making a mark in the entertainment industry, most recently in careers that extend from creative arts and Music. Celebrities such as Kimora Lee Simmons, Tyson Beckford and Amerie Rogers, have paved the way for not only blasians, but Asians and African Americans looking to leave a mark on our mainstream. According to King magazine, constructed by the opinions of their readers, blasian models such as Tomika Skanes, Lashontae, etc. are increasingly becoming the next most desired models next to that of the Victoria's Secret angels.
[edit]
Other Terms for Black and Asian
A Korean and Black baby.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/Babymaya.jpg/180px-Babymaya.jpgThe following terms may be regionalisms or neologisms.
Africasian (African and Asian)
Blackanese (Black/Chinese, Black/Vietnamese, Black/Japanese, Black/Saipanese, etc)
Blackorean/Blorean/Borean (Black/Korean)
Blackapina/Blackapino (Black/Filipino)
Afro-Filipino (African American/African and Filipino)
Afri-Asian/Afro-Asian/Afrasian (African-Asian)
Blietnamese/Afretnamese/Vietnamegro (Black/Vietnamese)
Cablinasian (Caucasian, black, Indian, and Asian) Coined by Tiger Woods, professional golfer.
Negrasian (Black and Asian)
Blindian (Black/Indian)[Pronounced like "in" not like "blind"]
Indigro/Afrindian (Black/Indian)
Chinegro/Chigro (Chinese/Black)
Blashasho (black and shasho)
Blindonesian (Black and Indonesian)[Pronounced like "in" not like "blind"]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasian[/url]
List of Blasians
A
Tatyana Ali - actress[1]
Amerie - singer, ½ korean, ½ African-American
[edit]
B
Tai Babilonia, Olympic skater, African-American and Filipino.
Joe Bataan, Latin Soul legend, Filipino and Black descent.
Tyson Beckford - supermodel[2]
Blakdyak, Filipino and Black
Ella Bully-Cummings, Detroit's first female police chief. Her father was an African American serviceman raised in Detroit when he met her mother in Japan.
Erin Jennae Burisse, black and filipino
[edit]
C
Dena Cali, according to her website she is Black, Swedish, and Chinese. This rapper from the West Coast recently completed her self titled debut album. She has also modeled and appeared in the movie Foolish with Master P and Eddie Griffin.
Naomi Campbell - model[3]
Cassie - R & B singer
Sedrick Chin, soccer player. Chinese father, Jamaican mother
Marcus Chong - actor[4]
Jamila Chilombo a.k.a. Mila J
Rae Dawn Chong - actress[5]
Bryan Clay African American and Japanese
Singer Crystal Kay has an African American father, and a Korean mother.[edit]
D
Julian De Guzman, soccer player, of Afro-Caribbean and Filipino descent
Marcus Demps, of the NFL's Detroit Lions, African-American father, Korean mother
Will Demps, of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, African-American father, Korean mother
Sugar Pie DeSanto, R&B and Jazz singer whose father is Filipino and mother is African-American.
[edit]
F
Brooke Fraser, singer/songwriter, Samoan/Fijian/Scottish/Spanish descent
Halford Fairchild, notable psychologist, father is African-American. Mother is Japanese and Hawiian
[edit]
H
Kamala Harris,First district attorney of asian descent. Jamaican father, Indian mother.
Laura Honore-Ko, professor of astrophysics (Harvard University). Her mother is Chinese from Hong Kong and her father is a French Black Caribbean.
Velina Hasu Houston Notable playwriter, Father is African and Native American. Mother is Japanese
Lashontae Heckard, model. African-American father, Korean mother
T.J. Houshmandzadeh, football player, father Iranian, mother is black.
Melissa Howard, her mother is Filipino and her father is Black (From MTV.com). Member of The Real World New Orleans cast.
Sheila Hudson, her father is Black and her mother is Korean. The American record-holder in the triple jump. For years she dominated the triple jump in the U.S. and was the only American to reach the final in the first Olympic triple jump competition for women in 1996.
[edit]
J
Jhene, R&B singer, Japanese, Native American and African American.
Dwayne Johnson, a.k.aThe Rock, Samoan and black
Tomiko Jones
[edit]
K
Crystal Kay, singer, 1/2 African American and 1/2 Korean
Kelis, singer, father black, mother Chinese-Puerto Rican
Christel Khalil, actress, her mother is 1/2 Black, 1/2 White and her father is Pakistani.
Sonja Kim, singer. 1/2 black and 1/2 korean
Sachio Kinugasa, baseball player. 1/2 African-American and 1/2 Japanese
[edit]
L
Wifredo Lam, artist, Chinese, African, Spanish
Denyce Lawton, model, 1/2 black and 1/2 korean
Sharon Leal, black and filipino
Michael Lee-Chin, Jamaican businessman, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Black
Laquita Lin, adult actress, blackanese (half-black, half-Japanese)
Allen Pineda Lindo, member of the hip-hop group, The Black Eyed Peas, half Filipino and half African
Olivia Longott, singer, Jamaican mother and Cuban, Indian & Dominican father
Nicole Lyn, actress, mother is Afro-Jamaican and her father Chinese-Jamaican
[edit]
M
Luke Mejares, black and filipino
Charles Mingus, musician, 1/2 African-American, 1/4 Chinese, 1/8 Swedish and German
Maria More, [url]http://www.mariamore.com[/url]
Debelah Morgan, her mother is Indian, her father is Black.
Chad, American football players, Black father and Japanese mother
Johnnie Morton, his mother is Japanese, his father is Black. Brother of Chad Morton. Selected by Detroit Lions in first round (21st pick overall) of 1994 NFL draft. Veteran receiver who is one of Lions’ most consistent offensive performers and one of the league’s most efficient pass-catchers. Is now second on Lions’ all-time receiving yards list with 5,345 yards, and currently stands in fourth place (392) on the Lions’ all-time receptions list.
[edit]
N
Ne-Yo, American R&B singer/songwriter of Afro-American (African, Indigenous American), Puerto-Rican (African, Indigenous American/Taino, Spanish Caucasian) and Chinese decent
[edit]
O
Sophie Ono
[edit]
P
Sean Paul, from ArtistDirect.com: Born Sean Paul Henriques on January 8, 1973, the multi-ethnic Paul (his parents had Portuguese, Chinese, and Jamaican blood) grew up in St. Andrew, Jamaica. Dancehall DJ Sean Paul began scoring hit singles in Jamaica starting in 1996, and has since attracted American attention with his appearance on the soundtrack of Hype Williams' Belly (with Mr. Vegas and DMX) and his 1999 hit "Hot Gal Today." Paul released his first album on VP Records; the sprawling Stage One.
[edit]
R
Elizabeth Ramsey, black and filipino
Jaya Ramsey, black and filipino
Tasha Reid, Korean rapper.
George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Chinese, European, African, Carib (Amerindian)
Dave Roberts, outfielder for the San Diego Padres, African-American father and Japanese mother
Jade Rodan, previous model and contestant on America's Next Top Model cycle 6, White mother and Afro-Asian-Indian father
[edit]
S
Robert C. Scott, 3/4 African American, 1/4 Filipino
Kimora Lee Simmons, Baby Phat CEO, Black father (African, Indigenous American) , Japanese mother
Tomika Skanes, model, African-American father (African, Indigenous American), Korean mother
Sonja Sohn, actress, Korean-American and African American
[edit]
T
Michael Takahashi, baseball player.
Karin Taylor, model, Jamaican, Chinese, Brazilian
[edit]
U
Tana Umaga, former captain of the New Zealand All Blacks
[edit]
W
Hines Ward, NFL player; black father and Korean mother
Peter Westbrook, his father is Black, his mother is Japanese. A six-time Olympian and 13-time U.S. national champion, Peter Westbrook is one of America's most decorated athletes. As a fencer, he toils in relative obscurity, yet his accomplishments in and out of the arena are legion. As a Black man in a white sport, he's become an Arthur Ashe with sword instead of racket, a pioneer with deep community roots. Started the Peter Westbrook Foundation to teach inner-city kids about fencing.
Yayoi Lena Winfrey, filmmaker. African American father, Japanese mother.
Chris Wong (Fresh Kid Ice), 2 Live Crew. Chinese father, black mother (of Trinidadian descent)
Tiger Woods, professional golfer, ¼ African-American, ¼ Chinese, ¼ Thai, ⅛ Cherokee, ⅛ Dutch
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Blasians[/url]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Afro-Asian woman.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/BlasianSensation.jpgThe term Blasian refers to those of mixed Black and Asian ancestry.[1] The term "Blasian" originated from the blending of "Black" and "Asian".
The historical term for these unions are known as 'Jotawa' or 'hapa popolo' . "Popolo" once exposed to western civilization, eventually became a a deragatory term for someone who was of half asian, half black. Just as 'hapa haole' became a deragatory term for those half asian and half white.
Afro-Asian is another term for Blasian, but it is ambiguous because just as African-American describes an American with Black ancestry, Afro-Asian can describe a Black person living in Asia.
Contents [hide]
1 History of Blasians
1.1 In Africa
2 Blasians In Entertainment
3 Other Terms for Black and Asian
4 See also
5 References
5.1 In Africa
6 External Links
[edit]
History of Blasians
This article or section does not cite its references or sources.
You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.[edit]
In Africa
While Blasians are commonly thought of as the result of blacks and Asians having children in immigrant nations such as Canada, there is also a substantial community of Blasians formed by people native to India visiting or settling in East Africa and intermingling with the locals. Before the Scramble for Africa, the most common examples were Indian traders (almost always male) in Swahili coastal towns and in the Kingdom of Zanzibar. Relations were not always friendly -- many Africans resented the Indian traders' practices, while the Indians in turn appear to have looked down upon the less-developed African communities -- but intermingling occurred with increasing frequency.
As the British Empire extended its domain over Africa and its control over British India, interrelations increased markedly. The process sped when India laborers emigrated to East Africa to seek employment building the Uganda-Kenya railway. After decolonization, business contacts kept Eastern and Southern Africa in contact with South Asia.
The highest Indian-African populations are in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[edit]
Blasians In Entertainment
In the past few years, blasians have been making a mark in the entertainment industry, most recently in careers that extend from creative arts and Music. Celebrities such as Kimora Lee Simmons, Tyson Beckford and Amerie Rogers, have paved the way for not only blasians, but Asians and African Americans looking to leave a mark on our mainstream. According to King magazine, constructed by the opinions of their readers, blasian models such as Tomika Skanes, Lashontae, etc. are increasingly becoming the next most desired models next to that of the Victoria's Secret angels.
[edit]
Other Terms for Black and Asian
A Korean and Black baby.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/Babymaya.jpg/180px-Babymaya.jpgThe following terms may be regionalisms or neologisms.
Africasian (African and Asian)
Blackanese (Black/Chinese, Black/Vietnamese, Black/Japanese, Black/Saipanese, etc)
Blackorean/Blorean/Borean (Black/Korean)
Blackapina/Blackapino (Black/Filipino)
Afro-Filipino (African American/African and Filipino)
Afri-Asian/Afro-Asian/Afrasian (African-Asian)
Blietnamese/Afretnamese/Vietnamegro (Black/Vietnamese)
Cablinasian (Caucasian, black, Indian, and Asian) Coined by Tiger Woods, professional golfer.
Negrasian (Black and Asian)
Blindian (Black/Indian)[Pronounced like "in" not like "blind"]
Indigro/Afrindian (Black/Indian)
Chinegro/Chigro (Chinese/Black)
Blashasho (black and shasho)
Blindonesian (Black and Indonesian)[Pronounced like "in" not like "blind"]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasian[/url]
List of Blasians
A
Tatyana Ali - actress[1]
Amerie - singer, ½ korean, ½ African-American
[edit]
B
Tai Babilonia, Olympic skater, African-American and Filipino.
Joe Bataan, Latin Soul legend, Filipino and Black descent.
Tyson Beckford - supermodel[2]
Blakdyak, Filipino and Black
Ella Bully-Cummings, Detroit's first female police chief. Her father was an African American serviceman raised in Detroit when he met her mother in Japan.
Erin Jennae Burisse, black and filipino
[edit]
C
Dena Cali, according to her website she is Black, Swedish, and Chinese. This rapper from the West Coast recently completed her self titled debut album. She has also modeled and appeared in the movie Foolish with Master P and Eddie Griffin.
Naomi Campbell - model[3]
Cassie - R & B singer
Sedrick Chin, soccer player. Chinese father, Jamaican mother
Marcus Chong - actor[4]
Jamila Chilombo a.k.a. Mila J
Rae Dawn Chong - actress[5]
Bryan Clay African American and Japanese
Singer Crystal Kay has an African American father, and a Korean mother.[edit]
D
Julian De Guzman, soccer player, of Afro-Caribbean and Filipino descent
Marcus Demps, of the NFL's Detroit Lions, African-American father, Korean mother
Will Demps, of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, African-American father, Korean mother
Sugar Pie DeSanto, R&B and Jazz singer whose father is Filipino and mother is African-American.
[edit]
F
Brooke Fraser, singer/songwriter, Samoan/Fijian/Scottish/Spanish descent
Halford Fairchild, notable psychologist, father is African-American. Mother is Japanese and Hawiian
[edit]
H
Kamala Harris,First district attorney of asian descent. Jamaican father, Indian mother.
Laura Honore-Ko, professor of astrophysics (Harvard University). Her mother is Chinese from Hong Kong and her father is a French Black Caribbean.
Velina Hasu Houston Notable playwriter, Father is African and Native American. Mother is Japanese
Lashontae Heckard, model. African-American father, Korean mother
T.J. Houshmandzadeh, football player, father Iranian, mother is black.
Melissa Howard, her mother is Filipino and her father is Black (From MTV.com). Member of The Real World New Orleans cast.
Sheila Hudson, her father is Black and her mother is Korean. The American record-holder in the triple jump. For years she dominated the triple jump in the U.S. and was the only American to reach the final in the first Olympic triple jump competition for women in 1996.
[edit]
J
Jhene, R&B singer, Japanese, Native American and African American.
Dwayne Johnson, a.k.aThe Rock, Samoan and black
Tomiko Jones
[edit]
K
Crystal Kay, singer, 1/2 African American and 1/2 Korean
Kelis, singer, father black, mother Chinese-Puerto Rican
Christel Khalil, actress, her mother is 1/2 Black, 1/2 White and her father is Pakistani.
Sonja Kim, singer. 1/2 black and 1/2 korean
Sachio Kinugasa, baseball player. 1/2 African-American and 1/2 Japanese
[edit]
L
Wifredo Lam, artist, Chinese, African, Spanish
Denyce Lawton, model, 1/2 black and 1/2 korean
Sharon Leal, black and filipino
Michael Lee-Chin, Jamaican businessman, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Black
Laquita Lin, adult actress, blackanese (half-black, half-Japanese)
Allen Pineda Lindo, member of the hip-hop group, The Black Eyed Peas, half Filipino and half African
Olivia Longott, singer, Jamaican mother and Cuban, Indian & Dominican father
Nicole Lyn, actress, mother is Afro-Jamaican and her father Chinese-Jamaican
[edit]
M
Luke Mejares, black and filipino
Charles Mingus, musician, 1/2 African-American, 1/4 Chinese, 1/8 Swedish and German
Maria More, [url]http://www.mariamore.com[/url]
Debelah Morgan, her mother is Indian, her father is Black.
Chad, American football players, Black father and Japanese mother
Johnnie Morton, his mother is Japanese, his father is Black. Brother of Chad Morton. Selected by Detroit Lions in first round (21st pick overall) of 1994 NFL draft. Veteran receiver who is one of Lions’ most consistent offensive performers and one of the league’s most efficient pass-catchers. Is now second on Lions’ all-time receiving yards list with 5,345 yards, and currently stands in fourth place (392) on the Lions’ all-time receptions list.
[edit]
N
Ne-Yo, American R&B singer/songwriter of Afro-American (African, Indigenous American), Puerto-Rican (African, Indigenous American/Taino, Spanish Caucasian) and Chinese decent
[edit]
O
Sophie Ono
[edit]
P
Sean Paul, from ArtistDirect.com: Born Sean Paul Henriques on January 8, 1973, the multi-ethnic Paul (his parents had Portuguese, Chinese, and Jamaican blood) grew up in St. Andrew, Jamaica. Dancehall DJ Sean Paul began scoring hit singles in Jamaica starting in 1996, and has since attracted American attention with his appearance on the soundtrack of Hype Williams' Belly (with Mr. Vegas and DMX) and his 1999 hit "Hot Gal Today." Paul released his first album on VP Records; the sprawling Stage One.
[edit]
R
Elizabeth Ramsey, black and filipino
Jaya Ramsey, black and filipino
Tasha Reid, Korean rapper.
George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Chinese, European, African, Carib (Amerindian)
Dave Roberts, outfielder for the San Diego Padres, African-American father and Japanese mother
Jade Rodan, previous model and contestant on America's Next Top Model cycle 6, White mother and Afro-Asian-Indian father
[edit]
S
Robert C. Scott, 3/4 African American, 1/4 Filipino
Kimora Lee Simmons, Baby Phat CEO, Black father (African, Indigenous American) , Japanese mother
Tomika Skanes, model, African-American father (African, Indigenous American), Korean mother
Sonja Sohn, actress, Korean-American and African American
[edit]
T
Michael Takahashi, baseball player.
Karin Taylor, model, Jamaican, Chinese, Brazilian
[edit]
U
Tana Umaga, former captain of the New Zealand All Blacks
[edit]
W
Hines Ward, NFL player; black father and Korean mother
Peter Westbrook, his father is Black, his mother is Japanese. A six-time Olympian and 13-time U.S. national champion, Peter Westbrook is one of America's most decorated athletes. As a fencer, he toils in relative obscurity, yet his accomplishments in and out of the arena are legion. As a Black man in a white sport, he's become an Arthur Ashe with sword instead of racket, a pioneer with deep community roots. Started the Peter Westbrook Foundation to teach inner-city kids about fencing.
Yayoi Lena Winfrey, filmmaker. African American father, Japanese mother.
Chris Wong (Fresh Kid Ice), 2 Live Crew. Chinese father, black mother (of Trinidadian descent)
Tiger Woods, professional golfer, ¼ African-American, ¼ Chinese, ¼ Thai, ⅛ Cherokee, ⅛ Dutch
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Blasians[/url]