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Birth Name:
Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas
Birth Place:
Glen Cove New York, USA
Birth Date:
October 13, 1980
Ethnicity:
African American
The singer/actress’s real name is Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas and is an African American. In interviews she has been quoted to say “I’m just black” when asked about her ethnicity.
Some sites have claimed that she is also of Dominican and Chinese descent, but these claims have not been verified.
Ashanti is also the name of a major ethnic group in the African nation of Ghana where the mother line is of enormous importance. The singer was named after this ethnic group by her mother.
Source:
http://ashanti.celebden.com/?cat=7
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A very intelligent comment Former Glencoveian.
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If the schools made African American history a requirement in the schools people wouldn’t have to waste their time trying to figure out why our skin colors, hair textures and eye colors vary. Black people come in all shades from the lightest of the light to the darkest of the dark. My dad is very dark with wavy hair. His grandfather is an olive complexioned Italian. The genes can go either way. Ashanti’s grandfather (James Davis) may he rest in peace was a light-skinned African American. And her father (Kinkaid-I hope I spelled his name right) is also light-skinned. If you study black history in America, there are a lot of black people that were so fair skinned they passed for white, change their identities, and moved away from their families so they can have an opportunity to live a better life by getting hired for jobs not offered to blacks or to the slaves it meant a chance at freedom. There are quite a few books that were written by different authors about “passing” especially during slavery and the time of the Jim Crow Laws. There are also books about mulatos, octoroons and quadroons. Google it. You may find a good book. This is why President Obama encourages young people to focus on getting a good education. In general people have been mixing since the beginning of creation.
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Very well put former G!
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i think she juss black
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whatever she said, you have to respect that….maybe she would like to keep some things about herself private. Whatever her lineage, that’s her business to disclose as she pleases. Anyone can go and research her family tree, but why bother? She can be part aboriginal Australian for all i care, i choose to take her word for it.
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Thanks for the comment mzswagg. btw what high school did you go to?
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Actually I know Ashanti I went to school wit her sister and yes she says she’s black, but she is also Dominican and part chinese.
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LOOK
STRAIGHT UP SHE IS BLACK
WHAT KIND FUCKIN CARRIBEAN DOES SHE HAVE IN HER WOWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
YALL IS HELERIOUS AND Y WOULD SHE LIE ABOUT HER RACE AND TRY TO UP CAREER
YOU ARE HELLA NOT MAKING SENSE JP JP
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Its a shame to hear that her fans would disown her for saying that she was mixed.
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she’s not just black if she has carribean blood in her, plus she’ s just saying she black to up her career, and no to be hated by the people who follow her career most.
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cant u see? she is just black? she is always pictured with her mum? no1 knows how her dad looks like so until then she is just a black girl
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