1 definition by RaceScholar
No one is exactly sure who 'Brown People' are. It has been used inconsistently throughout history to describe everyone from Italians (in early US immigration history), Malaysians, Indigenous people in Canada, Australia, and the US, people of India, 'mixed' South Africans, and Hispanics.
Where I live it is really in vogue with South Asians/Desis who feel the need to racialize themselves.
This term is used more by some of these groups to describe themselves then it is used by others to describe them.
Where I live it is really in vogue with South Asians/Desis who feel the need to racialize themselves.
This term is used more by some of these groups to describe themselves then it is used by others to describe them.
by RaceScholar November 16, 2010