List: Peoples of the African diaspora

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•  African American

  African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.

  

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•  African diaspora

  The African Diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world - predominantly to the Americas, then later to Europe, the Middle East and other places around the globe. The term is applied in particular to the descendents of the Black Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas by way of the Atlantic slave trade, with the largest population in Brazil.

  

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•  Islam in the African diaspora

  

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•  Garifuna

  The Garinagu (singular Garifuna) are an ethnic group of mixed ancestry who live primarily in Central America. They live along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala, St. Vincent, Nicaragua and Honduras including the mainland, and on the island of Roatán. There are also diaspora communities of Garinagu in the United States, particularly in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and other major cities.

  

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•  Black Canadians

  Black Canadians, Caribbean Canadians and African Canadians are designations used for people of Black African descent who reside in Canada. The terms are used by and of Canadian citizens who trace their ancestry back to people who were indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa. The majority have relatively recent origins in the Caribbean, while some trace their lineage to the first slaves brought by British and French colonists to the mainland of North America.

  

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•  Afro-American

  Afro-American is an alternative to the term African American, referring to an American of African ancestry. It also can be used as an umbrella term to refer to all descendants of Africans slaves to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade. The term had gained currency by 1890 but was surpassed by other terms, such as "colored". It returned to general usage in the 1960s and 1970s. Its former prominence can still be seen in several pop culture

  

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•  Afro-Latin American

  An Afro-Latin American (also Afro-Latino) is a Latin American person of at least partial Black African ancestry; the term may also refer to historical or cultural elements in Latin America thought to emanate from this community. The term can refer to the mixing of African and other cultural elements found in Latin American society such as religion, music, language, the arts and social class.

  

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•  Afro-Brazilian

  Negro is a term used to racially categorize Brazilian citizens who self-reported to be of black or brown skin colors to the official IBGE census. Brazilians, including Black Brazilians, do not use the American-style phrase "African Brazilian" to categorise themselves. The IBGE's July 1998 PME shows that, of Black Brazilians, only about 10% considers themselves of "African origin"; most of them identifying as having a "Brazilian origin" .

  

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•  Siddi

  The Siddi, Siddhi, or Sheedi are an Indian ethnic group of Black African descent. The Siddi population is currently estimated to be 20,000-55,000, with Gujarat state of India being the main population center. Siddis are mainly Sufi Muslims, although some are Hindus and some Roman Catholic Christians.

  

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•  Afro-Cuban

  The term Afro-Cuban refers to Cubans of Sub Saharan African ancestry, and to historical or cultural elements in Cuba thought to emanate from this community. The term can refer to the combining of African and other cultural elements found in Cuban society such as religion, music, language, the arts, and class culture.

  

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•  Maroon (people)

  Maroons were runaway slaves in the West Indies, Central America, South America, and North America, who formed independent settlements together.

  

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•  Afro-Trinidadian people

  

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•  Jews and Judaism in the African diaspora

  The Jewish people have had a long history in Africa, dating to the Biblical era. As the African diaspora grew, because of the movement of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, African Jews were part of that diaspora. In addition, Judaism has spread through the African diaspora, largely through conversion. While many adhere to traditional Jewish movements, there are a number of Jewish organizations unique to the African diaspora.

  

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•  Afro-Ecuadorian people

  An Afro-Ecuadorian is a member of a group in Ecuador who are descendants of black African slaves brought by the Spanish during their conquest of Ecuador from the Incas. They make up 8% of Ecuador's population. Ecuador has a population of about 1,120,000 descendants from African people. The Afro-Ecuadorian culture is found primarily in the country's northwest coastal region. Africans form a majority (70%) in the province of Esmeraldas and the Valle del Chota in the Imbabura Province.

  

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•  Bahamian American

  Bahamian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of Bahamian ancestry. The United States Census of 2000 counted 31,984 people of Bahamian ancestry.

  

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•  Black Seminoles

  The Black Seminoles is a term used by modern historians for the descendants of free Africans and some runaway slaves and Gullahs who escaped from coastal South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations into the Spanish Florida wilderness beginning as early as the late 1600s. By the early 1800s, they had often formed communities near the Seminole Indians.

  

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•  Black Indians (in the U.S.)

  

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•  Afro-Peruvian

  Afro Peruvians are citizens of Peru descended from African and Malagasy slaves who were brought to the New World with the arrival of the conquistadors towards the end of the slave trade.

  

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•  Afro-Mexican

  Afro Mexican is a term used to identify Mexican people of African ancestry or African people with Mexican ancestry. African Mexicans, now largely assimilated in the general population, have historically been located in certain communities in Mexico. They are currently found, most notably, along two coastal areas of Guerrero and Oaxaca called Costa Chica, as well as in small parts of Veracruz, Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán.

  

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•  Black British

  Black British is a term which has had different meanings and uses as a racial and political label. Historically it has been used to refer to any non-white British national. The term was first used at the end of the British Empire, when several major colonies formally gained independence and thereby created a new form of national identity. The term was at that time (1950s) used mainly to describe those from the former colonies of Africa, and the Caribbean, i.e. the New Commonwealth.

  

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•  Afro-Guyanese

  Afro-Guyanese people are the inhabitants of Guyana of Black African origin. When planters made land available to East Indians in the late 19th century when they had denied land to the Africans several decades earlier, Afro-Guyanese resentment of other colonial ethnic groups was reinforced.

  

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•  Haitian American

  Haitian Americans are Americans of Haitian heritage, or Haitian-born people who are naturalized citizens or permanent residents of the United States. The largest proportion of Haitians live in South Florida counties and cities such as South Jamaica, Queens, New York, Washington, D. C. , Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston. In 2007 it was estimated that there were 530,897 Haitian Americans living in the U.S.

  

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•  Sri Lanka Kaffir people

  

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•  Belizean Kriol people

  The Belizean Creoles or (locally known as Kriols) are Creole descendants of English and Scottish log cutters, as well as Black African slaves brought to Belize. Other small minorities include Creoles and the Miskito from Nicaragua, Jamaicans, and other West Indians who assisted in the logging industry. These varied peoples have all mixed to create this ethnic group.

  

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•  Afro-Germans

  Afro-Germans, African-Germans or Black Germans are defined as the Black African community and diaspora in Germany. While it is the largest Black African diaspora in Central Europe, the black communities in the United Kingdom and France are on average ten times larger.

  

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