African diaspora in the Americas explained

Group:African diaspora in the Americas
Region1: United States
Pop1:46,936,733
Ref1:[1]
Region2: Brazil
Pop2:20,656,458
Ref2:[2]
Region3: Haiti
Pop3:10,896,000
Ref3:[3]
Region4:
Pop4:4,671,160
Ref4:[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Region5: Mexico
Pop5:2,576,213[9]
Region6: Jamaica
Pop6:2,531,000
Ref6:[10]
Region7: Dominican Republic
Pop7:1,704,000
Ref7:[11] [12]
Region8: Panama
Pop8:1,258,915
Ref8:[13]
Region9: Canada
Pop9:1,198,540[14]
Region10: Cuba
Pop10:1,034,044
Ref10:[15]
Pop11:936,770
Ref11:[16] [17]
Region12: Peru
Pop12:828,824
Ref12:[18]
Region13: Ecuador
Pop13:814,468
Ref13:[19]
Region14: Puerto Rico
Pop14:574,287
Ref14:[20]
Region15: Nicaragua
Pop15:572,000
Ref15:[21]
Region16: Trinidad and Tobago
Pop16:452,536
Ref16:[22]
Region17: Bahamas
Pop17:324,000
Ref17:[23]
Region18: Barbados
Pop18:280,000
Ref18:[24]
Region19: Uruguay
Pop19:255,074
Ref19:[25]
Region20: Guyana
Pop20:227,062
Ref20:[26]
Region21: Suriname
Pop21:202,500
Ref21:[27]
Region22: Honduras
Pop22:191,000
Ref22:[28] [29]
Region23: Argentina
Pop23:149,493
Ref23:[30] [31] [32]
Region24: Saint Lucia
Pop24:142,000
Ref24:[33]
Region25: Belize
Pop25:108,000
Ref25:[34]
Langs:English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Papiamento, Dutch
Rels:Christianity, Rastafari, Afro-American religions, Traditional African religions, Islam, others
Related-C: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

See 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

African diaspora in the Americas by percentage of population!Country!% Black African!% Mixed Black African
Haiti95%~5%
Saint Kitts and Nevis92.5%3%
Barbados92.4%3.1%
Martinique
Jamaica92.1%6.1%
90.6%2.1%
Turks and Caicos87.6%2.5%
Antigua and Barbuda87.3%4.7%
Montserrat86.2%4.8%
Saint Lucia85.3%10.9%
Anguilla85.3%3.8%
Dominica84.7%9%
Grenada82.4%13.3%
76.3%5.4%
U.S. Virgin Islands76%2.1%
Vincent and the Grenadines71.2%23%
French Guiana[37]
Bermuda52%9%
Suriname
Guyana30.2%16.7%
Trinidad and Tobago34.2%[38] 22.8%
Panama
Belize25.6%6.1%
Cayman Islands20%40%
Dominican Republic15.8%70.4%
United States12.4%1.8%
Brazil10.2%45.3%
Guadeloupe10%76.7%
Cuba9.3%26.6%
Colombia[39]
Nicaragua
Puerto Rico7%10.5%
Ecuador
Uruguay4.6%3.2%
Canada
3.6%51.6%
Peru
Mexico
Honduras
Costa Rica[40] 1.1%6.7%

Notable people of African descent in the Americas

See also

Related bibliography

Notes and References

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  16. Web site: Resultado Básico del XIV Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2011. 29. Ine.gov.ve. May 2014. 8 September 2014.
  17. http://www.ine.gob.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/nacional.pdf Censo poblacional de Venezuela 2011
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  21. Web site: Nicaragua — The World Factbook . CIA.
  22. Web site: Trinidad and Tobago 2011 population and housing census demographic report. 94. Central Statistical Office. 30 November 2012. 5 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20171019211618/https://guardian.co.tt/sites/default/files/story/2011_DemographicReport.pdf. 2017-10-19. dead.
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  24. Web site: Barbados — The World Factbook . CIA.
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