2007-11-07 12:43:25 · 11 answers · asked by zorro 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
If I knew him / her, his/her name. If I didn't and had to ask for directions on the street, it would be "Pardon me, Sir / Ma'am . . .".
In the US, when they had laws about who could and couldn't do things based on race, they used these terms
Mulatto = 1/2 black
Quadroon = 1/4 black
Octroon = 1/8 black
You can still find them in old literature. "High Yellow Gal" was a term for women, usually, with just enough Black in them to make them look exotic. The lady in the song "The Yellow Rose of Texas" was probably a "High yellow gal".
"Mulatto" came to be the general term for mixed, because there wasn't a precise term for 5/16 or 3/8 or 41/6.
Some people today use the word "biracial" for people of just two races, and "mixed" for people like Tiger Woods, who has a little of everything.
(He also looks, brains and hand-eye coordination that puts 99.999% of the population to shame. One of the arguments against people of two races marrying, back when they had laws against it, was that the children would be ugly / stupid / crippled / otherwise unfit. Ha!)
"Creole" is the word in Louisianna for people who are mixed, although it implies they can speak French as well as English.
We use "Eurasian" for people of mixed Asian/European heratige, even if the European has been in the US or Canada for 12 generations. By that standars, "Eurafrican" would work, although I have never heard it.
The Brits used "Anglo-Indian" when the colonials trifled with the natives, not "Eurasian". "Icelando-Nigerian" has an odd ring to it, as does "Finno-Kenyan".
Just say "Mixed. Mom from ---, Dad from ---".
2007-11-08 02:36:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we are too darn busy trying to identify people by their racial or ethnic background. Most people would say biracial. However, almost all the people who are referred to as Black Americans or African Americans have some European ancestry.
2007-11-08 04:49:47 · answer #2 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would be named differently in each region, depending on where you are. You should check out this website which offers at the bottom of it's page a graph showing what historically in the U.S. the terminology has been for different racial groups and children of the interaction of those groups.
http://www.tarver-genealogy.net/aids/spanish/sp_racial_terms.html
It would mostly depend on the racial group of the European, as some would be Spanish, French, English, etc.
2007-11-07 14:31:51 · answer #3 · answered by Another Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person of mixed African-European ancestry; an Afro-pean or an Euro-can perhaps? I would say, "Mr.", "Mrs.", or "Ms" for beginners, followed by their name.
2007-11-07 13:13:00 · answer #4 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human
2007-11-10 09:47:50 · answer #5 · answered by DrMichael 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Afroeuropean
2007-11-11 08:54:23 · answer #6 · answered by rustynail 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Euroafrican
2007-11-07 13:07:35 · answer #7 · answered by Cold wind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American -maximum "individuals" can hint their history lower back to slavery whilst Britain and different eu countries recommended the slavery of the African natives. The "mixing" of the races and interracial relationships weren't uncommon.
2016-09-28 13:37:49 · answer #8 · answered by thieme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr., Ms, Mrs, depending.
2007-11-07 13:01:54 · answer #9 · answered by nam_miles 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Call them by their name, they'd like that
2007-11-08 02:42:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋