Explanation: You may see vastly different depictions of ‘Moors’ in modern fiction or historical artwork. This is in part due to the fact that the term was used for fucking everyone with zero precision across multiple European languages in the medieval and early modern periods, when it had the most currency.
Can the Hannah Montana song referenced in the title be considered a moor?
See also: the idea that Beethoven was “black” in the modern sense. Most likely he was just a “pureblooded” German with dark hair and eyes, not even as dark as the average person from Spain.
See also, the “Black Irish”, who were just Irish people with dark hair.
What the fuck.
I didn’t know this was a thing.
I want to back two minutes before I knew this was a thing.
Sorry, it’s Moops.
And then there’s “blackamoor”, for when you want to focus on the negritude part of the supposed Moorishness.
Mediterranean Europeans btfo, they’d be mad if they could read. /S
Wasn’t expecting to see Miguel Herrán here
Miguel Hedidn’trun
