Quote: Everyone is in search of beauty – Brazilian Beauty Best Answer: Mixed gene pool. Brazilians descend from native South Americans, Africans and Europeans so they get the best of everywhere, and mix it up. It is also a hot weather climate where people are more easygoing. And Brazil is a festive, effusive, right-brained culture. […]
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Empress ‘Adélina Lévêque Soulouque’ of Haiti
Adélina Soulouque (b. c. 1795-after 1859), née Lévêque, was Empress Consort of Haiti from 1849 until 1859, as wife of Faustin I of Haiti. Adélina was the daughter of Marie Michel Lévêque, a Haitian of mixed-race heritage. She had a long-term relationship with Faustin Souloque for many years. It was only in December 1849 that […]
Recommended Book To Read: From Columbus to Castro The History of the Caribbean
Unknown, Forgotten or Accidentally left out of your history books by mistake. This book is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands — Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, […]
Inside America’s Black Upper Class
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 […]
Brazilian Model: Taina Stark
Nationality: British Ethnicity: Bi-racial German And Brazilian. She is also multilingual with the ability to speak Portuguese, German and English. Ms. Stark is 5’8 1/2 tall with blue eyes. Tainá von Stark is an international model born in the beautiful country of Brazil. Blessed with exotic features and mesmerizing light blue eyes, the 5’8 beauty […]
Model and Actress: Denise Vasi
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Caribbean Hispanic/Afro-Latina Her father is of Dominican descent and her mother is Greek/Puerto Rican. A Brooklyn native, Vasi signed to Ford Models at the age of 12. Quote: For modeling they said I was too tiny, I wasn’t Caucasian enough, I wasn’t African enough, I wasn’t Latina enough. They kept saying no but I kept moving […]
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 […]
Louisiana’s Creole
Many Creoles, however, are descendants of French colonials who fled Saint-Domingue (Haiti) for North America’s Gulf Coast when a slave insurrection (1791) challenged French authority. According to Thomas Fiehrer’s essay “From La Tortue to La Louisiane: An Unfathomed Legacy,” Saint-Dominque had more than 450,000 black slaves, 40,000 to 45,000 whites, and 32,000 gens-decouleur libres, who […]