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Afro-Asians, African Asians, Blasians, or simply Black Asians are people of mixed Asian and African ancestry. [1] Historically, Afro-Asian populations have been marginalised as a result of human migration and social conflict.
Afro-Asia is a term describing the combination of Africa and Asia. The term is often used to describe the solidarity between African and Asian nations when they were acting against European colonialism and later also remaining nonaligned during the Cold War .
With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans.
Afro-Asian or Blasian, means a person of mixed race. Black African and East Asian. Ethiopians went to South Arabia in the 2nd century and the 4th century. By 532 AD they had invaded Yemen. After this, many more Africans came to South Arabia as slaves; men were usually traded and the women were kept as servants for the Arab leaders.
Across Asia and Africa, intellectuals, activists, and revolutionaries conversed across national, linguistic and ideological borders. Artists, poets, and performers experimented with new ideas and techniques for intellectual and cultural expression to create new visions of the nation.
Afro-Asiatic languages, languages of common origin found in the northern part of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and some islands and adjacent areas in Western Asia. About 250 Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken today by a total of approximately 250 million people.
Afro-Asians (or African Asians) are African communities that have been living in the Indian subcontinent for centuries and have settled in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This includes the Siddis (who have been in India and Pakistan for over a thousand years) and Kaffirs in Sri Lanka.
“Toward a Queer Afro-Asian Anti-Imperialism: Black Amerasians and U.S. Empire in Asian American Literature.” Journal of Asian American Studies 20, no. 2 (2017): 283–87. Reddy, Vanita.
This project combines African, Asian, Middle East, and American Studies to explore global mobilities of Afro-Asian interaction in multi-disciplinary, multi-media perspectives. We trace seaborne mobility around the Indian Ocean that formed influential Afro-Asian spaces of economic, political, and cultural life from ancient times.
Afro-Asian American culture and heritage resources are difficult to identify and access. The "Multiracial, Mixed-Race, and Biracial Identities" moves outside the black-white binary to provide an intersectional guide to understanding and finding resources on multiracial peoples.