Afro-Ukrainian
English
Etymology
Afro- + Ukrainian
Adjective
Afro-Ukrainian (comparative more Afro-Ukrainian, superlative most Afro-Ukrainian)
- Of or pertaining to Ukrainians of African descent.
- 2017, Juliana Tzvetkova, Pop Culture in Europe, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 172:
- Another reason for discontent is the mixed origin of singers, as was the case with the Afro-Ukrainian Gaitana or Swedish singer Loreen, described as Swedish of Moroccan-Berber descent
- 2022, Andrey Kurkov, Diary of an Invasion, Mountain Leopard Press, →ISBN:
- The mistress of the house, Julietta, is Afro-Ukrainian. Her father was from Africa. He came to the U.S.S.R. as a student.
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Noun
Afro-Ukrainian (plural Afro-Ukrainians)
- A Ukrainian of African descent.
- 2014, Adriana N. Helbig, Hip Hop Ukraine, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 162:
- Performances of blackness, as exemplified by Afro-Ukrainians like Gaitana and African groups like Alfa-Alfa and Chornobryvtsi, show that musicians walk a fine line of wishing to change perceptions of blacks in Ukraine while at the same time dipping into expectations of black performance aesthetics in order to communicate with the audience.
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