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African diaspora in the Americas

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African diaspora in the Americas
Regions with significant populations
 United States46,936,733[1]
 Brazil20,656,458[2]
 Haiti10,896,000[3]
 Colombia4,944,400[4][5][6][7][8]
 Mexico2,576,213[9]
 Jamaica2,531,000[10]
 Dominican Republic1,704,000[11][12]
 Panama1,258,915[13]
 Canada1,198,540[14]
 Cuba1,034,044[15]
 Venezuela936,770[16][17]
 Peru828,824[18]
 Ecuador814,468[19]
 Puerto Rico574,287[20]
 Nicaragua572,000[21]
 Trinidad and Tobago452,536[22]
 Bahamas324,000[23]
 Barbados280,000[24]
 Uruguay255,074[25]
 Guyana227,062[26]
 Suriname202,500[27]
 Honduras191,000[28][29]
 Argentina149,493[30][31][32]
 Saint Lucia142,000[33]
 Belize108,000[34]
Languages
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Papiamento, Dutch
Religion
Christianity, Rastafari, Afro-American religions, Traditional African religions, Islam, others
Related ethnic groups
African diaspora, Maroons

The African diaspora in the Americas refers to the people born in the Americas with partial, predominant, or complete sub-Saharan African ancestry. Many are descendants of persons enslaved in Africa and transferred to the Americas by Europeans, then forced to work mostly in European-owned mines and plantations, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Significant groups have been established in the United States (African Americans), in Canada (Black Canadians), in the Caribbean (Afro-Caribbean), and in Latin America (Afro-Latin Americans).

History

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Main article: Atlantic slave trade

After the United States achieved independence, next came the independence of Haiti, a country populated almost entirely by people of African descent and the second American colony to win its independence from European colonial powers. After the process of independence, many countries have encouraged European immigration to America, thus reducing the proportion of black and mulatto population throughout the country: Brazil, the United States, and the Dominican Republic. Miscegenation and more flexible concepts of race have also reduced the overall population identifying as black in Latin America, whereas the one-drop rule in the United States has had the opposite effect.[35]

From 21 to 25 November 1995, the Continental Congress of Black Peoples of the Americas was held. Black people still face discrimination in most parts of the continent. According to David D.E. Ferrari, vice president of the World Bank for the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean, black people have lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, more frequent and more widespread diseases, higher rates of illiteracy and lower income than Americans of different ethnic origin. Women, also the subjects of gender discrimination, suffer worse living conditions.

On 4 November 2008, the first black U.S. president, Barack Obama, won 52% of the vote. His father was from Kenya and his mother was from Kansas.[36]

Distribution

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African diaspora in the Americas by percentage of population
Country % Black African % Mixed Black African
 Haiti[3] 95% ~5%
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 92.5% 3%
 Barbados[24] 92.4% 3.1%
 Martinique
92.4%
 Jamaica[10] 92.1% 6.1%
 Curaçao
91.8%
 The Bahamas[23] 90.6% 2.1%
Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos 87.6% 2.5%
 Antigua and Barbuda 87.3% 4.7%
 Montserrat 86.2% 4.8%
 Saint Lucia[33] 85.3% 10.9%
 Anguilla 85.3% 3.8%
 Dominica 84.7% 9%
 Grenada 82.4% 13.3%
 British Virgin Islands 76.3% 5.4%
United States Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands 76% 2.1%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Vincent and the Grenadines 71.2% 23%
 French Guiana[37]
66%
 Bermuda 52% 9%
 Suriname[27]
37.4%
 Guyana[26] 30.2% 16.7%
 Trinidad and Tobago 34.2%[38] 22.8%[22]
 Panama[13]
32.8%
 Belize[34] 25.6% 6.1%
 Cayman Islands 20% 40%
 Dominican Republic[11] 15.8% 70.4%
 Aruba
15%
 United States[1] 12.4% 1.8%
 Brazil 10.2% 45.3%
 Guadeloupe 10% 76.7%
 Cuba 9.3% 26.6%
 Colombia[39] 9.34% 15.44%
 Nicaragua
9%
 Puerto Rico[20] 7% 10.5%
 Ecuador
4.8%
 Uruguay[25] 4.6% 3.2%
 Canada
4.26%
 Venezuela[16] 3.6% 51.6%
 Peru[18]
3.6%
 Mexico
2.04%
 Honduras[28][29]
2%
 Costa Rica[40] 1.1% 6.7%
 Argentina
0.37%
 Guatemala
0.3%
 Bolivia
0.2%
 El Salvador
0.13%
 Paraguay
0.13%
 Chile
0.06%

Notable people of African descent in the Americas

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See also

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  • Ethnic domination and racist discourse in Spain and Latin America. Dijk, Teun A. van. van. Gedisa Editorial SA ISBN 84-7432-997-3
  • Gender, class and race in Latin America: some contributions. Luna, Lola G. Ed PPU, SA ISBN 84-7665-959-8
  • Gender, race and class "color" desensientes Latinas. Impoexports, Colombia, Yumbo
  • Afro Atlantic Histories resource, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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