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The picture juxtaposes the similarities between the soft oval white face of the model, as if she were a living mask, with the shiny black mask, also with eyes closed and a serene expression. [4] It also expresses the artist's interest in African art, which had a huge influence in the artistic movements of the first decades of the 20th century. [5]
Other non-African black-skinned ethnic groups include some of the Dravidian peoples of southern India, and the Melanesians of the south-western Pacific Ocean (including the French territory of New Caledonia), of whom Christian Karembeu is a famous representative.
The 1804 Haiti massacre, also referred to as the Haitian genocide, [1] [2] [3] was carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people.
White people · Black people · Other Mixed people (Pardo, Mestizo, Zambo, etc.) Mulatto ( / m j uː ˈ l æ t oʊ / , / m ə ˈ l ɑː t oʊ / ) (original Italian spelling) is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry only.
The word quadroon was borrowed from the French quarteron and the Spanish cuarterón, both of which have their root in the Latin quartus, meaning "a quarter".. Similarly, the Spanish cognate cuarterón is used to describe cuarterón de mulato or morisco (someone whose racial origin is three-quarters white and one-quarter black) and cuarterón de mestizo or castizo, (someone whose racial origin ...
Black French people by occupation (5 C) A. French people of African-American descent (15 P) French people of Angolan descent (2 C, 3 P) B.
In 2008, Angola was the preferred destination for Portuguese migrants in Africa. [110] 300,000 white people with Portuguese heritage currently live in Angola. 500,000 are mixed race, half white and half black. [111] The majority of Angolan whites live in Luanda, the capital of Angola. They represent 260,000 from the 2.5 million inhabitants or ...
Colonial documents show that the term Créole was used variously at different times to refer to white people, mixed-race people, and black people, both free-born and enslaved. [14] The addition of "-of color" was historically necessary when referring to Creoles of African and mixed ancestry, as the term "Creole" ( Créole ) did not convey any ...