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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 .
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.
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.
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 Intimacies and the Politics and Aesthetics of Cross-Racial Struggle in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala.” Journal of Asian American Studies 18, no. 3 (2015): 233–63. Reddy, Vanita.
Afro-Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African-Americans and Asian-Americans. The African Diaspora in Trade Routes and Cultural Memories. Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America. The East is Black: Cold War in China and Black Radical Imagination. Articles:
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.
With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections...
After 1500, seaborne and airborne globalization of Africa and Asia territories and their many intersecting diasporas produced diverse Afro-Asian cultural environments. In the twentieth century, anti-imperial struggles produced influential Afro-Asian alliances in the Third World, Europe, and America.