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Transracial (identity)
Transracial is a label used by people who identify as a different race than the one they were born into. They may adjust their appearance to make themselves look more like that race, and may participate in activities associated with that race. Use of the word ''transracial'' to describe this is new and has been criticized, because the word was historically used to describe a person raised by adoptive parents of a different ethnic or racial background, such as a Black child adopted and raised by a white couple. History and usage Historically, the term ''transracial'' was used solely to describe parents who adopt a child of a different race. The use of the term to describe changing racial identity has been criticized by members of the transracial adoption community. Kevin H. Vollmers, executive director of an adoption non-profit, said the term is being "appropriated and co-opted", and that this is a "slap in the face" to transracial adoptees. In June 2015, about two dozen transr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race (human Categorization)
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. By the 17th century, the term began to refer to physical ( phenotypical) traits, and then later to national affiliations. Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. While partly based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning. The concept of race is foundational to racism, the belief that humans can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. Social conceptions and groupings of races have varied over time, often involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived traits. Modern scienti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic And Racial Studies
''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' is a peer-reviewed social science academic journal that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on anthropology, cultural studies, ethnicity and race, and sociology. The editors-in-chief are Martin Bulmer (University of Surrey) and John Solomos (University of Warwick). It was founded by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1978 and continues to be published by Routledge. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2014 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. The Impact Factor of a journa ... of 0.956, ranking it 58th out of 142 journals in the category "Sociology", and 5th out of 15 journals in the category "Ethnic Studies". References External links * Sociology journals Taylor & Francis academic journals Academic journals establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korla Pandit
Korla Pandit (born John Roland Redd; September 16, 1921 – October 2, 1998), was an American exotica musician, composer, pianist, and organist. After moving to California in the late 1940s and getting involved in show business, Redd became known as "Korla Pandit", claimed as a French-Indian musician from New Delhi, India. However, Redd was actually a light-skinned African-American man from Missouri who passed as a native of India. A pathbreaking musical performer in the early days of television, Redd is known for ''Korla Pandit's Adventures In Music''; the show was the first all-music program on television. He also performed live and on radio and made various film appearances, becoming known as the "Godfather of Exotica". Redd maintained the Korla Pandit persona—both in public and in private—until the end of his life. Early life, marriage, and family John Roland Redd was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 16, 1921. His father, Ernest Redd, was an African-American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimin (singer, Born 1995)
Park Ji-min (; born October 13, 1995), known mononymously as Jimin, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and dancer. In 2013, he made his debut as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS, under the record label Big Hit Entertainment. Jimin has released three solo tracks under BTS' name—"Lie" in 2016, " Serendipity" in 2017, and "Filter" in 2020—all of which have charted on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart. He released his first credited solo song, the digital track "Promise", which he co-wrote, in 2018 and recorded the duet " With You" with Ha Sung-woon for the soundtrack for the TvN drama '' Our Blues'' in 2022. Jimin released his debut solo album, '' Face'' in 2023, which debuted at number one in South Korea and Japan and number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200, making him the highest-charting Korean solo artist on the latter chart. The album's single " Like Crazy" became the first song by a Korean solo artist to debut at number one on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oli London
Oli London (born 14 January 1990) is an English Internet personality. London is known for his multiple ethnic plastic surgery procedures intended to make him look like Jimin, a member of the South Korean boy band BTS. Born in England, London's interest in South Korean culture began after moving to South Korea in 2013 to teach English. In 2022, he announced that he would no longer undergo surgeries and that he had converted to Christianity and was planning to receive baptism in the Catholic Church. He thereafter affiliated himself with the anti-gender movement. Early life London was born on 14 January 1990. His father is an interior designer and his mother is a housewife. London's interest in South Korea began in 2013, after arriving in Seoul to teach English for a year. London's partner, a Korean, taught him many Korean phrases; but according to London, he forgot almost everything he was taught due to his poor memory. He also began researching the country's culture, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Krug
Jessica Anne Krug (born ) is an American historian, author, and activist who taught at George Washington University (GWU) from 2012 to 2020, eventually becoming a tenured associate professor of history. Her publications include ''Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom'', which was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. In September 2020, Krug revealed that she had misrepresented her race and ethnicity during her career, and resigned from her position at GWU. Early and personal life Jessica Anne Krug—who pronounces her surname ''Cruz'' ( or , or in General American)—was raised in a Jewish family in Overland Park, Kansas, in the Kansas City metropolitan area. She attended Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy and The Barstow School in Kansas City, a co-ed private college prep school in south Kansas City. She later attended the University of Kansas without claiming to be a person of color before transferring to Portland State Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanotan II
Melanotan II is a synthetic analogue of the peptide hormone α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) that stimulates melanogenesis to facilitate tanning. It may also increase sexual arousal. It was developed as a successor to ''afamelanotide'' ("Melanotan I"), an FDA-approved drug operating through a similar pathway. Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals intended to offer it as a cosmetic, but abandoned this pursuit in the 2000s due to regulatory restrictions and concerns about the promotion of suntanning. Unlicensed Melanotan II is found on the internet, although health agencies advise against its use due to legality and a lack of testing. Melanotan-II may cause reversible darkening of moles and freckles. It is unclear if Melanotan II can increase (or reduce) the risk of developing melanoma, because reports of melanomas associated with its use have coincided with heavy UV exposure and sun bed use. A 2013 scientific review found there was no conclusive evidence it causes melanoma, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Dot
''The Daily Dot'' is a digital media company covering the culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web. It was founded by Nicholas White in 2011, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The site, conceived as the Internet's "hometown newspaper", focuses on topics such as streaming entertainment, geek culture, memes, gadgets and social issues, such as LGBT, gender and race. In addition, an e-commerce arm produces branded video for advertisers and sells items from an online marketplace. History ''The Daily Dot'' was established in 2011 by Nicholas White, whose goal was to cover Internet communities such as Reddit and Tumblr in the same manner as hometown newspapers cover their own communities. White's family has been in the newspaper business since buying the '' Sandusky Register'' in Ohio in 1869, and White was a reporter and executive with the family's media company before establishing the site. White launched ''The Daily Dot'' with $600,000 and a handful of full-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is part of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its Masthead (British publishing), masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the ''Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun'' and the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the ''Daily Record (Scotland), Daily Record'' and the ''Sunday Mail (Scotland), Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance. The ''Mirror'' publishes an Irish edition, the ''Irish Mirror''. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maury (TV Series)
''Maury'' is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Maury Povich. It ran for thirty-one seasons from September 9, 1991, to September 8, 2022, in which it broadcast 5,545 episodes. The show frequently featured paternity tests that determined if participants were father of a child or not. It was produced by MoPo Productions Inc. in association with Paramount Domestic Television. The show began unofficially using the title ''Maury'' in the 1995–1996 season, although its original title remained official until 1998, when Studios USA (now NBCUniversal) took over production and the show was officially retitled ''Maury''. MoPo Productions Inc continued to co-produce with NBCUniversal throughout the rest of the show's run. For the series' first 18 seasons, it was taped in New York City's Grand Ballroom; from 2009 until its end in 2022, the show was taped at the Rich Forum in Stamford, Connecticut, which is alternatively known as the Stamford Media Center, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Big
Malaika Kubwa (born Martina Adam; 17 May 1988), known professionally as Martina Big, is a German television personality known for her extremely large breast implants, and for undergoing a perma-tanning procedure to give herself a dark Human skin color, skin color, eyebrow color and eye color. Big currently Transracial (identity), identifies as Black people, black. Career and personal life Big was born in Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany. After receiving a high school diploma, she began a career as a flight attendant alongside her longtime partner Michael, who was a pilot. She quit working as a flight attendant in 2012 to pursue modeling and acting full-time. In 2017, Big confirmed in the Swedish television show ''Outsiders'' that she has the biggest breasts in Europe, employing a water displacement test. Body modifications On 3 December 2012, Big underwent a breast augmentation with large expandable implants. Since then, she had 23 procedures to add volume to her breasts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
