Negrito
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Negrito
First recorded in 1760–70; from Spanish negrito, equivalent to negr(o) “black” + -ito, diminutive suffix; cf. Negrillo ( def. )
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In the interview, Fantastic Negrito walked a long and winding road to blues stardom.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2019
The program extends beyond country, with the venerable blues guitarist Buddy Guy performing, along with the genre-straddling blues and R&B singer Fantastic Negrito and the Southern rock singer Jason Isbell and others.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
Fantastic Negrito: Mixing blues, funk and R&B, the singer-songwriter named Xavier Dphrepaulezz won a contemporary blues Grammy last year for his debut album, “The Last Days of Oakland.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2018
On Thursday, the judges are announcing the winner is Oakland, California-based music project Fantastic Negrito with a performance recorded in a freight elevator behind a work bench desk.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2015
He starts to thump The strings So that the noise Is real music And my cat Negrito Returns to sit On the fence.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
The result of these successive movements was that the Negritoes were first driven to the recesses of the interior by the Indonesians with whom they afterwards intermingled in various degrees.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.
From their physical resemblance, undoubted common descent, and geographical proximity, one might also expect to find some affinity in the speech of the Andaman and Malay Negritoes.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
The Dance of the Negritos from Puebla, and the Danza de los Diablos, from the Costa Chica of Guerrero, symbolize the resistance that Indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities lead in the face of marginalization and discrimination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
These people are found in a patchwork quilt of populations on islands of Southeast Asia, including Melanesians in Papua New Guinea, aboriginals in Australia, and Negritos in the Philippines.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2012
Those relict Negritos of Southeast Asia may be the last survivors of the source population from which New Guinea was colonized.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In reality, there are only a few New Guinean—like populations in the Philippine/western Indonesia area, notably the Negritos living in mountainous areas of the Philippines.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The Semang Negritos persisted as hunter-gatherers trading with neighboring farmers but adopted an Austroasiatic language from those farmers—much as, we shall see, Philippine Negrito and African Pygmy hunter-gatherers adopted languages from their farmer trading partners.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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