The Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Community is a multigenerationally mixed race community from the Eastern United States of America.
The term "Qarsherskiyan" was coined in 1991 to refer to certain multigenerationally mixed race families of the Eastern parts of the United States of America and Canada. Anyone who descends from a Triracial Isolate community that isn't one of the organized and named large groups such as the Redbone, Melungeon, or Lumbee community is considered to be of Qarsherskiyan stock. Descendants of Atlantic Creoles brought to the American Southeast are also considered to be of Qarsherskiyan stock. The Ethnic Qarsherskiyan community welcomes all genuine reconnecters from these families who wish to adopt the term Qarsherskiyan. The point of the term Qarsherskiyan is a label for these communities to express their unique multi-generationally mixed race heritage, which doesn't fit neatly into strict racial categorization options and often is Triracial and Polyracial, which are unusual identities for many average Americans not used to these concepts, who may expect someone to simply be Black or White or maybe even just biracial. The Qarsherskiyan identity guess these families agency and self-determination and a label for their unique pre-existing identities. The term didn't catch on until the end of 2019, and when it is eventually did it was thanks to the internet. Young Qarsherskiyan people work to use social media to document the unique cultures and traditions that different Qarsherskiyan families have. Some may have fusion cultures, such as, for example, one where people jump the broom at weddings, a tradition from Foundational Black Americans, but may also play banjo and make food from Appalachian culture.
