Thursday, July 2, 2020

Black (race)

穆拉托人  Mulatto is a term used to refer to people born of one white parent and one black parent or to people born of a mulatto parent or parents. In English, the term is today generally confined to historical contexts. English speakers of mixed white and black ancestry seldom choose to identify themselves as "mulatto."
The English term, mulatto, is believed to derive from the Spanish and Portuguesemulato. The origin of mulato is uncertain. The term may derive from mula (old Galician-Portuguese, from the Latin mūlus), meaning mule, the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey.[6][7] The Real Academia Española traces its origin to mulo in the sense of hybridity; originally used to refer to any mixed race person. Some dictionaries and scholarly works trace the word's origins to the Arabic term muwallad, which means "a person of mixed ancestry". Muwallad literally means "born, begotten, produced, generated; brought up", with the implication of being born and raised among Arabs, but not of Arab blood. Muwallad is derived from the root word WaLaD (Arabic: ولد direct Arabic transliteration: waw, lam, dal), and colloquial Arabic pronunciation can vary greatly. Walad means, "descendant, offspring, scion; child; son; boy; young animal, young one". In al-Andalus, Muwallad referred to the offspring of non-Arab/Muslim people who adopted the Islamic religion and manners. Specifically, the term was historically applied to the descendants of indigenous Christian Iberians who, after several generations of living among a Muslim majority, adopted their culture and religion. Notable examples of this category include the famous Muslim scholar Ibn Hazm. According to Lisan al-Arab, one of the earliest Arab dictionaries (c. 13th century AD), applied the term to the children of Non-Muslim (often Christian) slaves, or Non-Muslim children who were captured in a war and were raised by Muslims to follow their religion and culture. Thus, in this context, the term "Muwalad" has a meaning close to "the adopted". According to the same source, the term does not denote being of mixed-race but rather being of foreign-blood and local culture. In English, printed usage of mulatto dates to at least the 16th century. The 1595 work Drake's Voyages first used the term in the context of intimate unions producing biracial children, with the Oxford English Dictionary defining mulatto here as "one who is the offspring of a European and a Black". This earliest usage regarded "black" and "white" as discrete "species", with the "mulatto" constituting a third separate "species".
Of São Tomé and Príncipe's 193,413 inhabitants, the largest segment is classified as mestiço,or mixed race.
In Angola and Mozambique, the mestiço constitute smaller but still important minorities
- notable people

russia
- blacks in russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvUeeMl4fgc

china
崑崙奴,又稱《崑崙奴傳》,是《裴鉶傳奇》中的一篇,屬於唐人傳奇,《太平廣記》有收錄。崑崙”是唐朝人對印度半島南洋群島的泛稱,因皮膚黝黑,崑崙有黑色之意,即黑奴。“崑崙奴”是對崑崙人民移居中國的通稱。Kunlun Nu (崑崙奴, "The Kunlun Slave" or "The Negrito Slave") is a wuxia romance written by Pei Xing (裴铏, 825–880) during the Tang Dynasty. The hero of the tale is a Negrito slave that uses his extraordinary physical abilities to save his master's lover from the harem of a court official.The late Ming Dynasty bibliographer and playwright Mei Dingzuo (梅鼎祚, 1549-1615) wrote a play entitled "How the Kunlun Slave Became an Immortal" (昆仑奴剑侠成仙). The play expands upon the story in several ways. For instance, Mo-lê explains to Cui that despite his wonderful abilities, he "is a slave because of an obligation from a past life."[4] During the ten year interval between his escape and when he is spotted selling medicine in the market place, Mo-lê cultivates immortality through Taoist practices and befriends many Chinese immortals.[5] A woodblock print of the play appearing in Assorted Plays from the High Ming (盛明雜劇, 1629) portrays Mo-lê as a large-framed man with characteristic foreign features such as large eyes, a thick beard, and foreign dress.


Hong Kong
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2015-02/14/content_19587436.htm, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2015-02/14/content_19587434.htm The celebration of International Black History Month in Hong Kong

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