WebFictional entities. Tragic mulatto, a stock fictional character often called a "dark lady"; Sylvanas Windrunner, a World of Warcraft character; The Dark Lady, a playable hero in the computer game Heroes of Newerth; A female Dark Lord; Literature. Dark Lady (Shakespeare), the claimed addressee in a sonnet sequence by William Shakespeare …

WebThe name zebrawood is used to describe several tree species and the wood derived from them. Zebrawood is characterized by a striped figure that is reminiscent of a zebra.The name originally applied to the wood of Astronium graveolens, [citation needed] a large tree native to Central America. In the 20th century, the most important source of zebrawood …

WebLa pintura de castas, o cuadros de mestizaje, fue un fenómeno artístico que existió en la Nueva España y en el Virreinato del Perú en el siglo XVIII. Las pinturas eran, en parte, producto de la Ilustración e intentaban representar las muchas castas, el producto de la mezcla de razas, que existían en la América española fruto de la Conquista y el …

WebAndré Rigaud (1761 – 1811) was the leading mulatto military leader during the Haitian Revolution. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762-1806), father of French writer Alexandre Dumas (author of The Three Musketeers), was the son of a noble French general in Saint Domingue and a slave woman. His father took him to France at age 14 and gave him an ...

WebAfrican Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of enslaved Africans who are from the United States. While some Black immigrants or their children may also come to …

Web"The Weary Blues" is a poem by American poet Langston Hughes.Written in 1925, "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine Opportunity.It was awarded the magazine's prize for best poem of the year. The poem was included in Hughes's first book, a collection of poems, also entitled The Weary Blues. ( Four poems …

WebIndividual people, tribes, sites, and buildings should all be categorized in more specific categories. The only articles that should fall in this category should be broad-based articles spanning multiple states or affecting all Native American peoples in the United States.

WebThe Dominican War of Independence made the Dominican Republic a sovereign state on February 27, 1844. Before the war, the island of Hispaniola had been united for 22 years when the newly independent nation, previously known as the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, was unified with the Republic of Haiti in 1822. The criollo class within the …

WebAlexandre Dumas (UK: / ˈ dj uː m ɑː, d ʊ ˈ m ɑː /, US: / d uː ˈ m ɑː /; French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ]; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ([dymɑ davi də la pajət(ə)ʁi]), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where père is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer.His works …

WebThis category is for topics related to relations between populations of different ethnic, cultural or racial background, as well as multiethnic and multiracial people.. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.

WebDon Pío de Jesús Pico (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was a Californio politician, ranchero, and entrepreneur, famous for serving as the last governor of California (present-day U.S. state of California) under Mexican rule.A member of the prominent Pico family of California, he was one of the wealthiest men in California at the time and a hugely …

WebWater Island (Danish: Vand ø) is an island territory currently belonging to the United States Virgin Islands, an American territory located in the Caribbean Sea.The rest of the U.S. Virgin Islands were acquired by the Americans in 1917 from Denmark, however Water Island was excluded, thus the Danish East Asiatic Company, and by proxy the Danish kingdom, …

WebPlot. In 1776, a mulatto sailor (Milton Reid) is marooned on an island after assaulting the wife of pirate captain Nathaniel Clegg.. By 1792, Clegg has supposedly been captured by the Royal Navy and hanged. His resting place is the coastal village of Dymchurch on the Romney Marsh.The surrounding countryside is home to the "Marsh Phantoms": figures …

WebCasta (Spanish: ) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.In the context of the Spanish Empire in the Americas it also refers to a now-discredited 20th-century theoretical framework which postulated that colonial society operated under a hierarchical race-based "caste system".