African and Asian connections in history

• ColorQ Articles
  • Black African and Arab intermarriage in East Africa
  • Black Africans in West Asia
  • Habshis and Siddis - Africans and African descendants in South Asia
  • Afro-Asians in East Africa
  • Chinese Blacks in the Americas
  • Famous Afro-Asian couples and individuals in antiquity
• External Links
  • Afro-Asian Alliances: Marriage, Godparentage, and Social Status in Late-ninteenth-century Cuba (Paper by Kathleen Lopez of Lehman College, CUNY)
  • Seychellois of Asian Origin (IIAS Newsletter Online)
  • Belanda Hitam - The Black Dutchmen: The Story of African Soldiers in The Netherlands East Indies (Dr. I. van Kessel's article on ElwinInternational.com)
  • Chinese descendants in Kenya from the time of Zheng He? (Xinhua News Agency, Jul 2005)
  • Oldest surviving map of Africa is from China (BBC News, Nov 2002)

Black-Asian Interactions in Recent Times

• ColorQ Articles
  • Notable people of African and Asian/Pacific Islander descent
  • Notable black-Asian couples
  • Blacks and Asians in cross-community work
  • Profiles of Black/Asian friendships and romances
  • Black/Asian Community Links
  • Films with Black-and-Asian Relationships
  • Books About African/Asian Relationships
• External Links
  • ORIENT: a new anthropology (for Asian-Black relations) (a project set in motion by the death of 59-year-old Tian Sheng Yu in Oakland on April 16, 2010)
  • Martin Luther King's Story Plays on Beijing Stage (June 23, 2007, NPR)
  • New York School for Chinese Is a Magnet for Black Pupils (November 2, 2002, New York Times)

Why make a site dedicated to the "blasian" experience? At least in the United States, Black-Asian relations tend to be chillier than either Black-Latino or Latino-Asian relationships. Although prejudice between Blacks and Latinos or Latinos and Asians certainly exists, Black-Latino and Latino-Asian marriages are not rare in locations such as Florida or California. Asian families are more likely to accept Latin American sons- or daughters-in-law of mestizo or indigenous descent than they are to accept Black sons- or daughters-in-law. Similarly, non-Latinos of African descent generally encounter less disapproval from their partner's community when dating Latinos as compared to when dating Asians. So we saw the need for a site to show solidarity with the 'least encouraged' interracial couples.