What does Black French mean?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Black French may refer to: Black French people. Immigration to France.

What do you call African that was born in France?

Creole, Spanish Criollo, French Créole, originally, any person of European (mostly French or Spanish) or African descent born in the West Indies or parts of French or Spanish America (and thus naturalized in those regions rather than in the parents’ home country).

What kind of race is French?

The modern French are the descendants of mixtures including Romans, Celts, Iberians, Ligurians and Greeks in southern France, Germanic peoples arriving at the end of the Roman Empire such as the Franks and the Burgundians, and some Vikings who mixed with the Normans and settled mostly in Normandy in the 9th century.

Is noir black?

Noir is French for black and is a type of fiction or a film that has tough characters and is cynical, bleak and pessimistic in nature.

What is the feminine form of noir?

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What is Black Creole?

The term Black Creole refers to freed slaves from Haiti and their descendants. Still another class of Creole originates with the placage system in which white and creole men took on mixed-race mistresses in a lifelong arrangement, even if the men were married or married later.

Was there slavery in France?

Slavery had been active in French colonies since the early 16th century; it was first abolished by the French government in 1794, whereupon it was replaced by forced labour before being reinstated by Napoleon in 1802.

What are the different races in France?

Major ethnic groups are Germans (1.4 million), Bretons (1.2 million), Flemish (400,000), Catalonians (200,000), Corsicans (140,000), and Basques (130,000). France has had many ethnic and religious minorities, including Germans, Swiss, Italians, Protestants, Jews, Gypsies, and Mennonites.