Chapters: People of Black African Descent, Afro-Asian, Fernandino, Hoshu Sheedi, Alain Kanyinda, Jan-Willem Breure, Simone de Oliveira, Colored. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Afro-Asian or Blasian refers to people of mixed Sub-Saharan African, and Asian ancestry. Cape coloured school children in South AfricaThe Cape Coloured population descend from indigenous Khoisan or Capoid populations, European immigrants and Zanj, Malagasy, Ceylonese and South-East Asian (primarily Indonesian) laborers and slaves brought by the Dutch from the mid-17th Century to the late 18th Century. The majority of Coloureds, particularly in the Western Cape and Northern Cape, speak Afrikaans as a first language, while those in other parts of South Africa tend to speak English as well. Coloureds with Javanese or other Indonesian ancestry may often be regarded as Cape Malay and are primarily Muslims, while the majority of Coloureds are Christian (generally Protestant) or agnostic. Due to similar social adversities experienced under the Apartheid regime from the late 1940s to the late 1980s, Coloured and Indigenous South African communities generally fall under the Black social category when it comes to employment and affirmative action policies. During the Vietnam War African-American servicemen had children with local Vietnamese women. Some of these were abandoned by the Vietnamese family, or sent to orphanages. Many orphans and children were airlifted to adopting families in the United States in 1975 during "Operation Babylift" before the fall of South Vietnam. The Afro-Vietnamese (or Afro-Amerasian) children suffered much discrimination in Vietnam at that time. There was also some controversy as to how these orphaned Afro-Amerasian children were placed in new homes...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1185941