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Negro denotes 'black' in Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the Latin word niger, meaning 'black', which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, "to be dark", akin to *nokw-, 'night'. [4] [5] Negro was also used for the peoples of West Africa in old maps labelled Negroland, an area stretching along the Niger River.
El Negro" is a common Spanish language nickname, meaning "The Black". People. Estevanico (1500–1539), African explorer of the New World;
Meme and her brother Jere are teenagers, still at home under a passive father, Daniel, and a massively domineering mother, Lucía.Ezequiel, the eldest child, arrives from Spain with his bride Montse, who finds both the family and the society of upper-middle-class Argentina hollow and pretentious.
The Negro in Business is a book by Booker T. Washington published by Hertel, Jenkins & Company in 1907. [1] A copy is held by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture [ 2 ] and the New York Public Library 's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture .
A Universal Negro Improvement Association parade in Harlem, 1920. A sign on a car says "The New Negro Has No Fear". "New Negro" is a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.
Yahia Ben Rabbi (c.1145 – 1222) (pronounced YAH-hee-yah), also known as Yahia the Negro, was a Portuguese nobleman. He was reputed to be a direct descendant of the Hebrew exilarchs of ancient Babylonia ( Iraq ) that claimed direct descent from the Biblical King David [ 1 ] and was the eponymous progenitor of the Ibn Yahya family .
The Río Negro (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ˈneɣɾo], Black River) is a river in southern Brazil and central Uruguay. [1] It rises in the southern highlands of Brazil, just east of Bagé , and flows west across the entire width of Uruguay to the Uruguay River .