Afro-American peoples of the Americas
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| Notable Afro-American peoples of the Americas: |
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| 164,512,905 (18% of total the Americas population) |
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| Throughout The Americas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Portuguese, English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Papiamentu, Dutch, English creole and many others |
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Christianity, Afro-American religion, Islamic and Others |
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Afro-American peoples of the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas who have African ancestors. Most are descendants of people kidnapped and transferred from the sub-Saharan Africa (the vast majority of the Gulf of Guinea) to America by the Europeans to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At present, they constitute about 18% of the population of the continent with the largest concentrations by percentage of population are in (including some Mulatto populations) Haiti (95%), Jamaica (91.2%), Barbados (90%), Turks and Caicos (90%), Dominica (86.8%), The Bahamas (85%), Dominican Republic (84%), Trinidad and Tobago (58%), Bermuda (54.8%), Brazil (49.5%), Cuba (33.92%), Belize (30%), Colombia (22%).[2]
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[edit] Afro American History
After the United States achieved independence, came the independence of Haiti, a country populated almost entirely by Afro Americans, the second American colony to win its independence. After the process of independence, many countries have encouraged American immigration from Europe, thus reducing the proportion of black and mulatto population throughout the country: Brazil, United States, Dominican Republic, etc.. In the system of castes imposed by Spain in their American colonies, was called a mulatto son of black and white and zambo to black and Amerindian.
[edit] The Afro American population today
From 21 to November 25 of 1995 held the Continental Congress of Black Peoples of the Americas. Afro Americans still face discrimination in most parts of the continent. According to David DE Ferrari, vice president of the World Bank for the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean, Afro Americans have lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, more frequent and more widespread diseases, higher rates of illiteracy and lower income than their fellow . Even in countries like Brazil, with 49.3% of Afro American population, poverty tend it. Women, also be the subject of gender discrimination, suffer worse living conditions.
With regard to disease, Afro Americans suffer more pathologies own impact in the western world such as is chemical heart disease or cancer, especially prostate cancer, their conveners of the same race, but living in Africa and even the white Americans. It is unknown the cause of this phenomenon, but is believed to be due to changes in Western lifestyle negatively affecting most other "races". Similar phenomenon occurs with the eastern (Chinese and Japanese) and Asian Americans with them.
On November 5th of 2008 the Half Kenyan, Half White American candidate for the White House, Barack Obama won 52% of the vote, following positive results in states that had traditionally won by Republican presidents, such as Indiana and Virginia, proclaiming the new president of the USA.
[edit] Related Bibliography
- 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
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[edit] References
- ^ "PNAD" (in Portuguese) (PDF). 2006. http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/trabalhoerendimento/pnad2006/brasilpnad2006.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
- ^ Ethnic groups by Country (%)
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