Famous Blasian People: Black Celebrities You May Not Have Known Were of Chinese Descent.
Living in a Multi-ethnic World
Multiracialism is a society composed of a diverse mix of people while respecting different cultural backgrounds, religions, languages, and traditions.
Nowadays when it comes to multiracialism, the question is addressed as something new to deal with in the future. However, history has already experienced, albeit with difficulty, in some parts of the world periods of a multiracial society.
In the past, in these places, people of different ethnic groups have generated mixed marriages from which they were born multi-ethnic children. These people of multiracial and multi-cultural origins make up a significant portion of the population in many parts of the world.
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In North America, studies have shown that the multi-ethnic population is constantly growing. In many countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, mixed-race people make up the majority of the population.
Due to the reduction in racial discrimination, many multiracial people from multiethnic genetic heritage does not feel the need to hide their multiple origins and heritage.
In recent years many celebrities have shared their origins and reported to be the result of the multiracial mix. Never make assumptions about a person’s ethnicity or ‘race’ (geneticists have demonstrated that race is biologically not a reality), since his or her back story may be a surprise.
The tracking of race is used to enforce anti-discrimination laws, the increased number of mixed people created a complexity of racial self-identification since these people have a multi-genetic heritage.
Recently it has been invented the term Blasian to indicate dark-skinned people with African, Asian origins, and ancestors, and sometimes even Caucasian, a mix not always obvious at a first glance.
The term Blasian indicates dark-skinned people with African, Asian origins, and ancestors, and sometimes even Caucasians.
20 Black Celebrities of Chinese Origins (Blasian)
Here a list of some international celebrities who have shared to have a Chinese ancestor
Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods is an American professional golfer, one of the most successful golfers of all time. He was born on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, to Earl and Kultida Woods and he is the only child of their marriage.
Kultida, originally from Thailand, is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry.
Earl a retired lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran were African American and traces of European descent. Earl’s mother Maude Carter was of light skin.
Some suggest possible Native American and Chinese ancestry.
Tiger refers to his ethnic make-up as “Cablinasian” (a syllabic abbreviation he coined from Caucasian, Black, American-Indian, and Asian. [Wikipedia]
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Elaine Campbell is an English supermodel, she is considered by the fashion industry, one of the six top models of her generation.
She was born on May 22, 1970, in Streatham, South London, the daughter of Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris. Naomi Campbell has never met her father.
She is of African-American descent, as well as of Chinese Jamaican ancestry through her paternal grandmother, who carried the family name “Ming“. [Wikipedia]
Pamela Grier
Pamela Suzette “Pam” Grier is an American actress that became famous in the early 1970s.
She starred in Quentin Tarantino‘s film Jackie Brown, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.
Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second greatest female action heroine in film history.
Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema’s first female action star.
She was born on May 26, 1949, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia, a homemaker and nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier, Jr., who worked as a mechanic and Technical Sergent in the United States Air Force.
Grier has stated that she is of mixed ancestry consisting of African, American, Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino and Cheyenne Indian heritage. [Wikipedia]
Tyson Beckford
Tyson Beckford is an American fashion model, best known as a Ralph Lauren Polo model.
Beckford was born on December 19, 1970, in Rochester, New York to a Jamaican father of mixed-race including Chinese paternal grandmother and a Jamaican mother of Panamanian, Afro-Jamaican descent.
During his school years, in The Bronx, Tyson was often teased about his looks. [Wikipedia]
Rae Dawn Chong
Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-American actress best known for her roles in the films Quest for Fire (1981), The Color Purple (1985), Commando (1985), and Time Runner (1993).
She has become a naturalized United States citizen. Chong was born on February 28, 1961, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the first daughter of Maxine Sneed and comedian/actor Tommy Chong.
Chong’s father is of Chinese and Scotch-Irish, French descent, and her mother is of Afro-Canadian and Cherokee descent.
Chong has said that her paternal grandfather left a poor village in China in the 1930s to live with an aunt in Canada. [Wikipedia]
Robbi Lynn Chong
Robbi Lynn Chong is a Canadian actress and former model. She works in popular TV Shows: The Cosby Show (1988), Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996-1998), and ER (2006).
Chong was born on May 28, 1965, in Vancouver, British Columbia, the second daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong.
Both parents are biracial. She is the sister of Rae Dawn Chong.
They grew up desperate to know anything about their Chinese culture, but their grandfather had great racial shame and refused to teach Cantonese to his children or grandchildren. [Wikipedia]
Marcus Chong
Marcus Chong (born Marcus Wyatt) is an American actor, best-known roles are Huey P. Newton in Panther (1995), directed by Mario Van Peebles, and Tank the Operator in The Matrix (1999).
Chong was born on July 8, 1967, in Seattle, Washington to an African American father and a Chinese-American mother.
His father, Martin Wyatt, was a sports reporter in San Francisco for KGO-TV. [Wikipedia]
Sean Paul
Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques is a Jamaican recording artist, musician, producer, and actor.
Paul was born on January 9, 1973, in Kingston, to parents Garth and Frances, both of whom were talented athletes.
His mother is a well-known painter.
His paternal grandfather had Sephardi Jewish ancestry, from a family that had emigrated from Portugal, and his paternal grandmother was Afro-Caribbean; his mother is of English and Chinese Jamaican descent. [Wikipedia]
Robinne Lee
Robinne Lee is an American actress and author. She made her screen debut in 1997 and she spends the following years working in smaller films, and well as co-starred in television movies.
On television, Lee also guest-starred on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She will next be seen in Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. Her first novel will be released by St Martin’s Press in June 2017.
Lee was born on July 16, 1974, in Mount Vernon, New York. Lee is the daughter of Jamaican parents of African, Chinese, British, and Arawak Indian descent. [Wikipedia] , [Huffington Post]
Kelis Rogers
Kelis Rogers is an American singer-songwriter and certified chef. Kelis has been recognized at the Brit Awards, Q Awards, NME Awards, and Grammy Awards ceremonies.
Kelis was born on August 21, 1979, and raised in the Harlem, where she was raised, a neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
Her father Kenneth was an African American jazz musician and Pentecostal minister and was formerly a professor at Wesleyan University.
Her mother Eveliss is a Chinese-Puerto Rican fashion designer who inspired Kelis to pursue her singing career. [Wikipedia]
Shaffer Chimere Smith
Shaffer Chimere Smith better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Ne-Yo gained fame for his songwriting abilities with a single in 2004.
He was a guest judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent Judge Cuts. Ne-Yo was born on October 18, 1979, in Camden, Arkansas.
His father is of African American and Chinese descent, and his mother is African-American.
Both his parents were musicians. As a young child, he was raised by his mother after she separated from his father.
[Wikipedia]
Khalil Kain
Khalil Kain is an American actor best known for his role as Raheem in the 1992 film Juice and as Darnell Wilkes on the UPN/The CW sitcom Girlfriends, replacing Flex Alexander.
Kain was born on November 22, 1964, in Manhattan, New York City, of African American and Chinese descent.
His father is poet, playwright, recording artist Gylan Kain, founder of The Last Poets. [Wikipedia]
Kreesha Turner
Kreesha Turner is a Canadian/Jamaican recording artist and songwriter. She began her musical career after a successful audition with Virgin Records.
She signed a record deal with the Capitol Music Group, under which the Virgin imprint operates.
Concurrently, EMI Music Canada signed her in order to more effectively tap into the Canadian market.
Born on June 10, 1985, in Canada, to a father of Scottish ancestry and a Jamaican mother of African and Chinese descent. She was raised in both Canada and Jamaica. [Wikipedia]
Foxy Brown
Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand, better known by her stage name Foxy Brown, is an American rapper, model, and actress.
She is best known for her solo work, as well as numerous collaborations with other artists.
She was born on September 6, 1978, in New York City, New York. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, her father Winston Marchand abandoned the family at a young age to pursue his career at ERAC records.
She is of mixed Afro-Trinidadian, Indo-Trinidadian, and Chinese Trinidadian descent. [Wikipedia]
Karin Taylor
Karin Katherine Taylor is a former international fashion model, known as Playboy magazine’s June 1996 Playmate of the Month.
Taylor began her modeling career at age 17 when she was discovered by the Ford Modeling Agency in Miami.
Taylor moved to Los Angeles and began an acting career that included a guest-starring appearance on Baywatch as Taylor Johnson.
Taylor was born on November 28, 1971, in Kingston, Jamaica. She’s of Jamaican-Chinese descent. [Wikipedia]
Angela Yee
Angela Yee is an American radio and TV personality. She co-hosts with DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God, the nationally syndicated morning show The Breakfast Club.
She gravitated toward the marketing and music industries soon after graduation from college.
Yee was born on January 3, 1976, in Brooklyn to a West Indian Montserrat mother and a Cantonese father. [Wikipedia]
Patrick Chung
Patrick Christopher Chung is an American football strong safety for the New England Patriots of the National Football League.
Chung was born on August 19, 1987, in Kingston, Jamaica.
He is of Chinese and Jamaican descent.
Chung’s mother, Sophia George-Chung, is a Jamaican reggae artist who was popular in the 1980s. [Wikipedia]
Tiffany Limos
Tiffany Rochelle Limos is an American actress best known for her role as Peaches in the 2002 film Ken Park.
Limos had also written three scripts.
In 2007 was honored at the Cinemanila Film Festival by then-President of The Philippines, Gloria Arroyo.
Limos apprentice and worked for Larry Clark, Quentin Tarantino, Michel Gondry, Woody Allen, and Spike Lee. She was born on January 31, 1980, in Dallas, Texas.
Her parents are both Filipino and their ancestry includes Spanish, Hawaiian, French, African, and Chinese. [Wikipedia] [Ethnic Celebs]
Ayesha Curry
Ayesha Alexander Curry is a Canadian-American celebrity cook, cookbook author, actress, model, and businesswoman.
Her cooking career started in 2014 when she began to present cooking demonstrations on her Youtube channel Little Lights of Mine. Curry married professional NBA player, Stephen Curry, in 2011.
She was born March 23, 1989, in Toronto, Canada.
Her mother is a Chinese Jamaican and her father is Polish-African American. [Twitter]
Tessanne Amanda Chin
Tessanne Amanda Chin is a Jamaican recording artist, best known for winning Season 5 of NBC’s reality TV singing competition The Voice as part of Adam Levine’s team.
Chin was born on September 20, 1985, in Kingston, Jamaica.
Her father, Richard Chin, is of Jamaican-Chinese descent and her mother, Christine Chin, also a Jamaican national, is of English and African descent.
Her mother was the trumpeter and singer in The Carnations and her father was the band’s drummer. The family has a recording studio in their home in Jamaica. [Wikipedia]
History: Why these celebrities are of Chinese descent?
Chinese Diaspora
Individuals of Chinese heritage are commonly recognized by their ethnic background rather than their nationality. Being of Chinese descent qualifies one as Chinese, irrespective of their place of residence. Those living beyond the borders of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau are referred to as overseas Chinese.
The term overseas Chinese (海外华人) encompasses individuals born or descended from China who reside outside the aforementioned regions. This group includes not only the Han Chinese, who form the ethnic majority, but also members from various ethnic minorities within China. Read More about the Chinese Diaspora.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Caribbean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Canadians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Americans
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/395/Blasian
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Kristin Kreuk of Smallville TV show is too. ( She is just hiding her black heritage) from Jamaica
hey. underground world! this article was a great read and full of things alot of ppl dont know. i love it.
im a mixed man as well, my mother is of chineese and Creole decent and my father is of African Republic of Congo, native american & a small percent of scottish (literally less than 5%). but i loved finding out new things about the immigration laws that arose in the past and look forward to learning more in the future. but the only thing i love more than food and a great night on the town is immersing myself in chineese culture. it just feels so intuitive with my mind and soul i cant give it up. ever since i was a child I’ve wanted to visit and now that im grown thats exactly what im gonna do.