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Fulbeck began the project in 2001, traveling the country photographing over 1,200 volunteer subjects who self-identified as Hapa (defined for the project as mixed ethnic heritage with partial roots in Asian and/or Pacific Islander ancestry) [5] [6] Each individual was photographed in a similar minimalist style (directly head-on, unclothed from the shoulders up, and without jewelry, glasses ...
For example, hapalua is half, hapahā is one-fourth, and hapanui means majority. [2] [3] In Hawaii, the term can be used in conjunction with other Hawaiian racial and ethnic descriptors to specify a particular racial or ethnic mixture. [2] [3] An example of this is hapa haole (part European/White). [18] [19]
An assessment of racism in Trinidad notes people often being described by their skin tone, with the gradations being "HIGH RED – part White, part Black but 'clearer' than Brown-skin: HIGH BROWN – More white than Black, light skinned: DOUGLA – part Indian and part Black: LIGHT SKINNED, or CLEAR SKINNED Some Black, but more White: TRINI ...
The terms multiracial people refer to people who are of multiple races, [1] and the terms multi-ethnic people refer to people who are of more than one ethnicities. [2] [3] A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for multiracial people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, occasionally bi-ethnic, biracial, mixed-race, Métis, Muwallad, [4] Melezi ...
"East Asian Highlanders" (Tibetans) carry both Tibetan ancestry and Yellow River ancestry. Japanese people were found to have a tripartite origin; consisting of Jōmon ancestry, Amur ancestry, and Yellow River ancestry. [22] [23] East Asians carry a variation of the MFSD12 gene, which is responsible for lighter skin colour. [24]
Most Black people I knew had some shift in their skin tone as babies. But as the weeks and then months passed, that didn’t happen. The brown-skinned, kinky-haired Luna of my daydreams didn’t ...
In South Africa, Asian usually refers to people of South Asian ancestry, more commonly called Indians. [1] [2] They are largely descended from people who migrated to South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th century from British ruled South Asia. The "Indian"/"Asian" identity was codified by law under Apartheid as a race group. [3]
Modern Kyrgyz people are descended in part from the Yenisei Kyrgyz that lived in the Yenisey river valley in Siberia. The Kyrgyz people were constituents of the Tiele people, the Göktürks, and the Uyghur Khaganate before establishing the Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate in the 9th century, and later a Kyrgyz khanate in the 15th century. [13] [14] [15]