Multiracial affairs

Amerasian is a term coined by author Pearl S. Buck for a person fathered abroad by U.S. servicemen to women of Asian nationalities. Approximately 10,000 Amerasians were left behind after the Vietnam War. Thousands more were born to women during World War II and the Korean War, fathered by both U.S. and non-U.S. servicemen, throughout Asia, including the various islands which dot the Pacific. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amerasian"

The Anglo-Burmese, also known as the Anglo-Burmans, are a community of Eurasians of Burmese and European descent, and emerged as a distinct community through mixed relations (sometimes permanent, sometimes temporary) between the British and other European settlers, and the local Burmese ethnic groups from 1826 until 1948 when Burma received its Independence. Today, this small but influential Eurasian community is dispersed throughout the world, with very few estimates left of how many remain behind in military-ruled Myanmar, formerly Burma. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anglo-Burmese"

The term "Black Irish" is sometimes used in the United States to refer to Irish people possessing dark skin and hair, purportedly due to Iberian ancestry. Numerous popular theories have been devised to explain the provenance and historical background of the "Black Irish." ...more on Wikipedia about "Black Irish"

(Cablinasian) A person of Caucasian, Black, American Indian and Asian racial background. For example, Tiger Woods, who coined the term, is one-quarter black, one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-eighth American Indian, and one-eighth white. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cablinasian"

Cafuzo is a term of Portuguese origin describing the first generation offspring of a Black African and an Amerindian (see Zambo). ...more on Wikipedia about "Cafuzo"

Colored and Colored People (or Colored Folk in the plural sense) are North American terms that were commonly used to describe people of African Ancestry. However, within the current and former members of the Commonwealth of Nations the term Coloured has also been applied to members and descendents of other races as well, including some Asians, Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and Arabs. The term "colored" in particular (along with " Negro") largely has fallen out of popular usage in the United States, diminishing in frequency in the last third of the 20th century. Despite the negative connotations it may have today, "colored" was once a term used virtually universally in the U.S., and it came to be used as part of the name of the NAACP—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colored"

In English vernacular, Eurasian is a term that refers to those of mixed European and Asian heritage (by ancestry —increasingly by mixed parentage as a fact of modern transculturation). The word was originally used during 19th century British rule over India to refer to a person born of a British father and an Indian mother. Nowadays, the term usually refers to people of European caucasoid and Asian mongoloid descent. More precise descriptions may include Nordic/ Baltic/ Slavic/ Celtic/Latin European (etc.) linkages with people of Chinese/ Indian/ Afghani/ Turkic/ Mongolian (etc.) heritage. Known in popular culture by the Hawaiian term hapa (meaning "half"), people with mixed Asian and European origins have become synonymous with exotic glamour. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eurasian (mixed ancestry)" This article is made for www.shortopedia.com Multiracial_affairs

The Garifuna or Garífuna are an ethnic group in the Caribbean area, descended from a mix of Amerindian and African people. They are also sometimes known as Garifune or Black Caribs. There are estimated to be about 200,000 of them in Central America and the United States. Properly, the term "Garifuna" refers to the individual and the language, while Garinagu is the (plural or collective) term for the people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Garifuna"

The Griqua ( Afrikaans Griekwa) are a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people. The Griqua are a racially and culturally mixed people whose origin goes back to the intermarriages or sexual relations between European colonists in the Cape and the Khoikhoi already living there in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Griqua where then called Basters, meaning bastard children. Today, Basters are a separate ethnic group of similarly mixed origins living in south-central Namibia. The Griqua largely adopted the Afrikaans language before their migrations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Griqua"

Half-breed is a term used to describe anyone who is half of one race and half of another. The term was once widely used to describe people of mixed Native American (especially North American) and white European parentage. The word is considered impolite and offensive by many. ...more on Wikipedia about "Half-breed"

In the Hawaiian language and in Hawaiian Pidgin, a hapa is an individual of mixed racial or ethnic heritage, especially someone of partial Native Hawaiian ancestry who is born in Hawai'i. Used without qualification, it is often taken to mean "part Hawaiian and part white." The term is used descriptively, and few Hawaiians today consider it an offensive slur. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hapa"

Hyperdescent is the practice of determining the lineage of a child of mixed race ancestry by assigning the child the race of his more socially dominant parent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hyperdescent"

Hypodescent is the practice of determining the lineage of a child of mixed race ancestry by assigning the child the race of his or her more socially subordinate parent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hypodescent"

An interethnic couple is a romantic couple or marriage in which the partners are of differing ethnic groups. It is sometimes refered to as "interracial marriage", a highly controversed term deemed by many to be a pseudo-scientifical concept, being instead a main component of racist theories. Since the human species is not divided into various "races", "interracial marriage" is in itself a racist denomination aiming to make believe in its pseudo-scientifical theories. Various laws, especially in the US until 1967, have prohibited " miscegenation". ...more on Wikipedia about "Interethnic marriage"

(List of interracial, interethnic or intercultural couples) * Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones), poet and his wife Hettie Jones writer (married 1960-1965) ...more on Wikipedia about "List of interracial, interethnic or intercultural couples"

List of famous biracial and multiracial people. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of multiracial people"

This is a list of terms for multiraciality used worldwide for people of various types, kinds and degrees of multiracial backgrounds. Many of these may be considered offensive or slurs. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of terms for multiraciality"

Melungeon is a term traditionally applied to one of a number of so-called "tri-racial isolate" groups of the Eastern United States, found mainly in Appalachia, especially Eastern Tennessee, Southwestern Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky. "Tri-racial" refers to populations of mixed European, African, and Native American racial ancestry, and "isolate" refers to "genetic isolate," that is, a group that has maintained to some degree a distinct ethnic identity, though is not necessarily isolated in a geographic or cultural sense. Although there is no consensus on how many such groups exist, estimates range as high as 200. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Melungeon"

Mestizo ( Portuguese, Mestiço; French, Métis: from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere, "to mix") is a term of Spanish origin used to designate the people of mixed European and indigenous non-European ancestry. The term has traditionally been applied mostly to those of mixed European and indigenous Amerindian ancestry who inhabit the region spanning the Americas; from the Canadian prairies in the north to Argentina and Chile's Patagonia in the south. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mestizo"

A métis is a person born to parents who belong to different groups defined by visible physical differences, predominantly racial. The term is French, and also is a cognate of mestizo in Spanish. In the Western Hemisphere, this term usually is used to describe someone born or descended from the union of a European and an Aboriginal. However, the term has been used by other groups around the world, mostly in countries which were under French influence such as Vietnam and is still commonly used by Francophones today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Métis"

Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different ethnicities, especially in marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations. Interracial marriage or interracial dating may be more common in contemporary usage. While the English word has a history of ethnocentrism, the Spanish and French words, mestizaje and métissage, connote a positive melting-pot of cultures. ...more on Wikipedia about "Miscegenation"

The terms multiracial, biracial, and mixed-race describe people whose ancestors are not of a single race. (Biracial strictly refers to those with ancestors from exactly two races). One example might be a mulatto, a person with a white and a black parent. Another might be the Mestizo who are descended from Caucasian and indigenous ancestors. It is sometimes a matter of opinion if people are mixed-race, because races themselves are not clearly defined. This has caused some problems for census-takers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Multiracial"

An octoroon or mustee is the offspring of a quadroon and a European parent. This term is considered obsolete and is no longer in general use was, but formerly used in American English to mean "a person whose ancestry is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black". ...more on Wikipedia about "Octoroon"

Pointee is a term coined in Kenya for people of mixed African and other ethnic origins, usually African/ Caucasian ancestry. It is somewhat humoristic as it is a pun on the racial percentage given in decimals: point 5 (0.5). Nonetheless it is widely used. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pointee"

Quadroon describes a person with one quarter African or black ancestry. It is a term derived from the Spanish language word cuarterón, from cuarto, "quarter", from Latin quartus. It commonly refers to a person with 3 European or white grandparents and one African grandparent. This term is considered obsolete and is no longer in general use, as is the term octoroon, which was formerly used in American English to mean "a person whose ancestry is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black". ...more on Wikipedia about "Quadroon"

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