List of Blasians
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A list of notable Blasians. The term Blasian refers to those of mixed Black and Asian (in the US English sense) ancestry.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] A
- Tatyana Ali - actress[1]
- Amerie - singer, ½ Korean, ½ African-American
[edit] B
- Tai Babilonia, Olympic skater, African-American and Filipino.
- Joe Bataan, Latin Soul legend, Filipino and Black descent.
- Tyson Beckford - supermodel[2]
- Ella Bully-Cummings, Detroit's first female police chief. Her father was an African American serviceman raised in Detroit when he met her mother in Japan.
- Naomi Campbell - model[3]
- Cassie - R & B singer
- Marcus Chong - actor[4]
- Jamila Chilombo a.k.a. Mila J
- Rae Dawn Chong - actress[5]
- Bryan Clay African American and Japanese
[edit] D
- Marcus Demps, of the NFL's Detroit Lions, African-American father, Korean mother
- Will Demps, of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, African-American father, Korean mother
- Sugar Pie DeSanto, R&B and Jazz singer whose father is Filipino and mother is African-American.
- Ashanti Douglas, American singer, songwriter, record producer, Mixed Chinese-African father, African-American mother
[edit] F
- Brooke Fraser, singer/songwriter, Samoan/Fijian/Scottish/Spanish descent
[edit] H
- Kamala Harris,First district attorney of asian descent. Jamaican father, Indian mother.
- T.J. Houshmandzadeh, football player, father Iranian, mother is black.
- Melissa Howard, her mother is Filipino and her father is Black (From MTV.com). Member of The Real World New Orleans cast.
[edit] J
- Jhene, R&B singer, Japanese, Native American and African American.
- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, professional wrestler turned actor; son of Black Canadian pro wrestler Rocky Johnson and his Samoan wife
[edit] K
- Crystal Kay, singer, 1/2 African American and 1/2 Korean
- Kelis, singer, father black, mother Chinese-Puerto Rican
- Christel Khalil, actress, her mother is 1/2 Black, 1/2 White and her father is Pakistani.
- Sachio Kinugasa, baseball player. 1/2 African-American and 1/2 Japanese
[edit] L
- Denyce Lawton, black and korean
- Wifredo Lam, artist, Chinese, African, Spanish
- Sharon Leal, black and filipino
- Michael Lee-Chin, Jamaican businessman, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Black
- Allen Pineda Lindo, member of the hip-hop group, The Black Eyed Peas, half Filipino and half African
- Olivia Longott, singer, Jamaican mother and Cuban, Indian & Dominican father
- Nicole Lyn, actress, mother is Afro-Jamaican and her father Chinese-Jamaican
[edit] M
- Charles Mingus, musician, 1/2 African-American, 1/4 Chinese, 1/8 Swedish and German
- Debelah Morgan, her mother is Indian, her father is Black.
- Chad, American football players, Black father and Japanese mother
- Johnnie Morton, his mother is Japanese, his father is Black. Brother of Chad Morton. Selected by Detroit Lions in first round (21st pick overall) of 1994 NFL draft. Veteran receiver who is one of Lions’ most consistent offensive performers and one of the league’s most efficient pass-catchers. Is now second on Lions’ all-time receiving yards list with 5,345 yards, and currently stands in fourth place (392) on the Lions’ all-time receptions list.
[edit] P
- Sean Paul, popular dancehall deejay
[edit] R
- Jaya Ramsey, black and filipino
- Tasha Reid, Korean rapper.
- George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Chinese, European, African, Carib (Amerindian)
- Dave Roberts, outfielder for the San Diego Padres, African-American father and Japanese mother
- Jade Rodan, previous model and contestant on America's Next Top Model cycle 6, White mother and Afro-Asian-Indian father
[edit] S
- Robert C. Scott, 3/4 African American, 1/4 Filipino
- Kimora Lee Simmons, Baby Phat CEO, Black father (African, Indigenous American) , Japanese mother
- Tomika Skanes, model, African-American father (African, Indigenous American), Korean mother
- Sonja Sohn, actress, Korean-American and African American
[edit] T
- Karin Taylor, model, Jamaican, Chinese, Brazilian
[edit] U
- Tana Umaga, former captain of the New Zealand All Blacks
[edit] W
- Hines Ward, NFL player; black father and Korean mother
- Peter Westbrook, his father is Black, his mother is Japanese. A six-time Olympian and 13-time U.S. national champion, Peter Westbrook is one of America's most decorated athletes. As a fencer, he toils in relative obscurity, yet his accomplishments in and out of the arena are legion. As a Black man in a white sport, he's become an Arthur Ashe with sword instead of racket, a pioneer with deep community roots. Started the Peter Westbrook Foundation to teach inner-city kids about fencing.
- Chris Wong (Fresh Kid Ice), 2 Live Crew. Chinese father, black mother (of Trinidadian descent)
- Tiger Woods, professional golfer, ¼ African-American, ¼ Chinese, ¼ Thai, ⅛ Cherokee, ⅛ Dutch
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ [1] "Her mother is from Panama (African, Indigenous American) and her father is of Trinidad East Indian descent."
- ^ [2]"One of America's Hottest Multiracial Models and Actors... This article shines a spotlight on the 6'2" supermodel Tyson Beckford--one of the world's most famous male models and an individual whose unique African-Asian appearance has taken the modeling world by storm."
- ^ [3] "Her mother is Black (Jamaican), her father is Multiracial, at least partly Chinese (according to Arena Magazine her mother said "he was of mixed race and had a touch of Chinese in him")"
- ^ [4] "biracial actor Marcus Chong..."
- ^ [5] "According to Chong, her Irish grandmother, "a really wonderful Chinese chef," taught her to cook Chinese food. And, thanks to her dad, she was endowed with a multicultural attitude. "My Chinese-Irish father hung out only with Black people when he grew up," she says. "He was Afrocentric...all of his friends were Black musicians." About being multiracial she says, "We're sort of in the otherness of life. It's a fascinating challenge...It's wonderful the way that (mixed) people click and break off into subgroups from the super Afrocentric to the Anglo. The confusion when you're multiethnic or multiracial is that you have a tendency not to have a place to call your own. When I see other mixed kids, I say we're in the same tribe." Chong has felt the sting of racism often. "As a Black woman, you have to be careful if you're driving late night," she says referring to the practice by some police of routinely stopping cars with Black drivers. "In my opinion...it has to do a lot with training." "As far as the Chinese scientist (Wen Ho Lee)," she continues, "if the ethnic press is saying 'you guys are racist', then listen to them. I go to Washington State and Vancouver, Canada and at Customs I have been pulled over more times. If I was a white woman I know for a fact I wouldn't get hassled with.""
