Colored

Among colored people you do not understand white people. The term comes from the historical racial theories and racist views and is now seen as problematic. It was and is of particular importance in all systems of racial segregation . It was never used as a self-designation.

On the one hand, the expression specifically describes people with dark skin color, as a synonym for the expression black , various groups of India or Aborigines . In a broader sense, it refers to people who are not fair-skinned ("white"), i.e. all non- Europeans (and their descendants worldwide), and in an even broader sense also southern Europeans of a darker nature , which puts the term in the context of the Aryan race theory. Then there are aspects of the “mixed race question”, so that one came up with definitions such as “having a brown or black skin color” or expanded “having a brown, black, red or yellow skin color”, where in addition to the “black race” there is also the “ yellow "the" Asians "and" red "the" Indians "finds, all also traditional concepts.

Related expressions:

• Person of color (plural: people of color ) in the British colonial area since the late 18th century - today a common self-designation in German-speaking countries as well in political discourse
• Colored in the United States , at first specifically African American and "mongrels" and "Indians" ( Native Americans ), and later darker Latinos ( Latin Americans ), of which in addition to there " mulatto called" European-African and the " Zambo called" African- American Indian “Mixed race” count
• Colored , Bruinmense, Kleurlinge, Bruin Afrikaners in South Africa and Namibia of apartheid especially for people with ancestors with black and white skin color (in distinction to Blacks - Indians , " Indians " were considered a separate race)

See also

• Whiteness

Web links

Wiktionary: Colored  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The brown mob e. V .: Information for journalists on the correct language handling of right-wing extremist or racially motivated crimes. 2006, accessed May 25, 2017 . 
2. ^ Daniel Bartel, Doris Liebscher, Juana Remus: Racism in front of court: white norm and black knowledge in German law . In: Karim Fereidooni, Meral El (ed.): Criticism of racism and forms of resistance . Springer, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-14720-4 , pp. 362 note 3 .
3. ↑ see colored , Duden spelling online, accessed October 6, 2013
4. ↑ Constantin Wagner: Who is "we"? In: Miriam Aced, Tamer Düzyol, Arif Rüzgar, Christian Schaft (eds.): Migration, Asylum and (post-) migrant worlds in Germany. Inventory and perspectives of migration policy practices . Lit, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12463-0 , pp. 174, 179 .
5. ↑ Susan Arndt: The 101 Most Important Questions - Racism . CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-67765-6 , p. 97 .
6. ↑ Tupoka Ogette: exit RACISM. Learn to think critically against racism. Unrast, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-8977-1230-0 , pp. 15-18.