Debutante cotillions. Arranged marriages. Summer trips to Martha’s Vineyard. All-black boarding schools. Memberships in the Links, Deltas, Bouleacute, or Jack and Jill. Million-dollar homes. An obsession with good hair, top credentials, and colleges like Howard, Spelman, and Harvard… This is the world of the black upper class– an exclusive, mostly hidden group that lives awkwardly […]
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Brazilian Model: Emanuela De Paula
Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: a White Brazilian mother and an Afro-Brazilian father. Born in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco, Brazil. She speaks Brazilian Portuguese and English. Quote: “I am what we call “mulata”. She has also stated she is one of the few black women in the fashion industry. According to Forbes, De Paula ranked the eleventh highest paid […]
Model: Phillipa Steele
Nationality: (Sigatoka, Fiji) Fijian Ethnicity: 1/2 Fijian and the other half is made up of Tongan, French, English and American. Phillipa Steele is a Fijian model working internationally. She speaks French and English. Ms. Steele commented on Instagram, writing, “For the record, if anyone even cares . ? Yes I’m half black and half French.” People […]
Miss Japan: Ariana Miyamoto
Nationality: Japanese Ethnicity: Miyamoto was born to a Japanese mother and an African American father. Ariana Miyamoto (宮本 エリアナ 磨美子) Miyamoto Eriana Mamiko, born in Sasebo, Nagasaki) is a Japanese beauty pageant titleholder crowned Miss Universe Japan. https://youtu.be/iPhwUsa8P0A?t=4m57s She will represent Japan at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant, but her victory faced criticism from critics who verbally abused […]
Model: Jasmine Sanders
Nationality: American Ethnicity: German and African American. She was born in Germany. BIO/Interview below: When I was 13 years old, my mom was confronted by my mother agent, Sheilah Dixon of Millie Lewis South Carolina, to come to the agency to meet her. That meeting turned into a test shoot, which later turned into those […]
Brazilian Model: Marina Nery
Nationality: Brazilian She Speaks Brazilian Portuguese and English. From Bahia, Brazil.Why did you become a model? I was scouted in school. What do you think about fashion? I think it’s like a work of art. Describe your style to us. I don’t know, I try to be both elegant and pretty, I really like skirts […]
Model: Morgan Antush
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Her mother is Barbadian & Cherokee Indian and her father is Slovak-Swiss and Irish. Q & A: Who are some of your fashion icons and why? Marc Jacobs would definitely be a fashion icon for me, I love how he really launched the grunge style with cashmere thermals, Doc Martins and beanies in […]
Model: Rachel James
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Caucasian mother and African descent father. Ms. James is 5’9 ft tall with blue/green eyes. https://youtu.be/02Nzc0u2DUc https://vimeo.com/87630890 An acting clip https://vimeo.com/88043459 Yellow and blue Quote: :: MINT APPLE SEAS :: @concreteandchillies I’m deeply grateful for this nautical little treasure • The roots of goodness are in the soil of appreciation for goodness […]
Model: Maria Durruthy
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: (Bi-racial) Russian, Swedish and Afro-Cuban. Fluent in 4 languages: Russian, Swedish, English and Spanish. Born in Cuba, raised in Moldova and Sweden. Beauty comes in all shades. We would like to see more models like her. Such a beauty should be known. https://vimeo.com/82581826 https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t50.2886-16/11213123_1820112421547861_894727783_n.mp4 https://youtu.be/_Hi27FLPudA?t=18s https://youtu.be/_y6oZDz7v1I?t=9s https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xft1/t50.2886-16/11818800_932269060152410_1401757651_n.mp4 https://youtu.be/jwBDQok8MF8 https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xft1/t50.2886-16/11846926_1603339363266793_340329192_n.mp4 https://youtu.be/jbKDMjIGMwg Boots […]
Identity and the legacy of family secrets and denial
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African decent father and (Jewish) Caucasian mother. Lacey Schwartz, a 37-year-old Harvard Law School graduate turned filmmaker, moves with ease in circles in which her identity as both black and Jewish seems unremarkable. What makes her biography striking is that Ms. Schwartz, a woman with light brown skin and a cascade […]
Ukrainian Singer: Tina Sokol
Nationality: Ukrainian Ethnicity: Unknown She speaks Russian and English. Tina Sokol is part of a Ukrainian girl group called Montana. https://youtu.be/2JE8u57X_XM Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. Ukrainian flag below Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part […]
Model: Jennifer Marlies Wadl
Nationality: Austrian Ethnicity: Cameroon mother and Austrian father. She speaks three languages; German, English and French. Born Jennifer Marlies Wadl on December 10 in Austria. Being of mixed origins, she has experienced a lot of racism in her personal and professional life. What may seem as an obstacle too many has fueled her passion to become an international […]
Model & Runway Queen: Deonna Leigh
Nationality: (Kansas) American. Ethnicity: Native American, Dominican and Scottish. Standing at 5’11, Deonna has been modeling since she was 3. She has one of the best catwalks I’ve ever seen. This woman is fierce with so much flare, we need to see more of her talent on the runway! With her father below With her […]
Model: Janice Joostema
Nationality: Canadian Her mother is from Fiji and her father is Dutch. Janice was born in Canada. She’s signed with NEXT Models Canada – Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and currently a Fashion Design student. Fiji, a country in the South Pacific, is an archipelago of more than 300 islands. It’s famed for its rugged landscape of […]
Origins and Meaning of Mulatto
A mulatto is defined as: the first general offspring of a black and white parent; or, an individual with both white and black ancestors. Generally, mulattoes are light-skinned, though dark enough to be excluded from the white race. Several years ago, Jobling’s team found that more than a quarter of British African-Caribbean men have a […]
Miss France: Flora Coquerel
Nationality: French Ethnicity: father is French & her mother is Beninese, African. An international business student, Coquerel conquered French people’s hearts with her words — she stated a desire to represent a cosmopolitan, modern France claiming that “today’s France is a mixed France, where there is every culture, and I think a lot of people […]
Model: Sadie Nicole Burris
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: Black, Mexican & German Ms. Burris can also ride a motorcycle. https://vimeo.com/73812028 http://youtu.be/wL28p7_UKUw https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t50.2886-16/11166602_1427300634238977_399825477_n.mp4 Sports Her beautiful grandparents below
Model: Stephanie Bertram Rose
Nationality: Belgian. Ethnicity: Mother is Portuguese & Senegalese, African and her father is Caucasian. She Speaks French and English. Ms. Rose is 5’7 ft tall with green eyes. “I’m from Belgium. I grew up in the Dutch part and then, when I turned 11, we moved to just next to Ghent to a place called Deinze. […]
One-drop rule by Harvard Gazette
So say Harvard University psychologists, who’ve found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members of both parent groups, but as belonging more to their minority parent group. The research appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. ‘One-drop rule’ persists | Harvard Gazette Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout […]