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===Dispersal through slavery===
===Dispersal through slavery===
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Much of the African diaspora was dispersed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas because of both the [[Atlantic Slave Trade|Atlantic]] and [[Arab Slave Trade|Arab]] [[Slave Trade]]s. Beginning in the 9th century, African slaves were taken from the [[North Africa|northern]] and [[East Africa|eastern]] portions of the continent. Then beginning in the 15th century, Europeans, and later Americans, took slaves from much of the rest of the continent, especially [[West Africa]]. These slaves were dispersed all over the world. Those taken by the Arab slave trade often ended up in the [[Middle East]] while those taken by the Atlantic slave trade often ended up in [[Brazil]] or the [[United States]]. Both the Atlantic and the Arab slave trades lasted until the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24159 |title=Historical survey > The international slave trade |publisher=Encyclopedia Britanica |work=Slavery |year=2007 |accessdate=2007-09-30}}</ref>
Much of the African diaspora was dispersed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas because of both the [[Atlantic Slave Trade|Atlantic]] and [[Arab Slave Trade|Arab]] [[Slave Trade]]s. Beginning in the 9th century, African slaves were taken from the [[North Africa|northern]] and [[East Africa|eastern]] portions of the continent. Then beginning in the 15th century, Europeans, and later Americans, took slaves from much of the rest of the continent, especially [[West Africa]]. These slaves were dispersed all over the world. Those taken by the Arab slave trade often ended up in the [[Middle East]] while those taken by the Atlantic slave trade often ended up in [[Brazil]] or the [[United States]]. Both the Atlantic and the Arab slave trades lasted until the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24159 |title=Historical survey > The international slave trade |publisher=Encyclopedia Britanica |work=Slavery |year=2007 |accessdate=2007-09-30}}</ref> Although the slave trade was outlawed by many countries in the first half of the 19th century, illegal slave trade vessels continued to cross the Atlantic until the end of the century. One of the records preserved about the interception of slave trade vessels during this era is a British admirality file dated 1869, containing rare photographic images of the living conditions during the crossing.<ref>Phillips, Mike. [http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/caribbean/origins/slavery1.htm# Slavery: Catalogue reference (PRO) FO 84/1310]. ''Migration Histories: Caribbean. Origins.'' Moving Here (a consortium of 30 archives, libraries and museums led by the National Archives, United Kingdom). Retrieved 26 November 2007.</ref>


===Dispersal through immigration===
===Dispersal through immigration===

Revision as of 19:28, 26 November 2007

The African diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and cultures of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America); Europe and Asia. Much of the African diaspora is descended from people who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade, with the largest population living in Brazil (see Afro-Brazilian).

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A poster of "African Reparation, Reconciliation and Restoration Conference"

History

Dispersal through slavery

See also: Atlantic Slave Trade and Arab Slave Trade

Much of the African diaspora was dispersed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas because of both the Atlantic and Arab Slave Trades. Beginning in the 9th century, African slaves were taken from the northern and eastern portions of the continent. Then beginning in the 15th century, Europeans, and later Americans, took slaves from much of the rest of the continent, especially West Africa. These slaves were dispersed all over the world. Those taken by the Arab slave trade often ended up in the Middle East while those taken by the Atlantic slave trade often ended up in Brazil or the United States. Both the Atlantic and the Arab slave trades lasted until the 19th century.[1] Although the slave trade was outlawed by many countries in the first half of the 19th century, illegal slave trade vessels continued to cross the Atlantic until the end of the century. One of the records preserved about the interception of slave trade vessels during this era is a British admirality file dated 1869, containing rare photographic images of the living conditions during the crossing.[2]

Dispersal through immigration

From the very onset of Spanish activity in the Americas, Africans were present both as voluntary expeditionaries and as involuntary colonists.[3] [4] Juan Garrido was one such black conquistador. He crossed the atlantic as a freedman in the 1510s and participated in the siege of Tenochtitlan.[5] African immigration has become the primary force in the modern diaspora. It is estimated that the current population of recent African immigrants to the United States alone is over 600,000.[6]. Countries with the most immigrants to the U.S. are Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Somalia, and South Africa. Some of them came from Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique(see Luso American), Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, and Cameroon. Africans typically congregate in urban areas, moving to suburban areas over time. There are significant populations of African immigrants in many other countries around the world, including the UK[7] and France.[8][9]

Intra-Africa

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza writes that often diaspora studies focus too much on the Atlantic slave trade. He describes the four dominant dimensions of the global African diasporas: the intra-Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Atlantic diasporas.[10] The intra-Africa diaspora concerns itself with the movement of people between the nations of Africa. It is still an emerging area of research for Western scholars.

Indian Ocean

More broadly, the African diaspora comprises the descendants of the indigenous peoples of Africa, wherever they are in the world outside Africa itself. Some Pan-Africanists also consider other Africoid peoples as diasporic African peoples. These groups include, among others, the Malay Peninsula (Orang Asli);[11] New Guinea;[12] Andamanese; certain peoples of the Indian subcontinent,[13][14] notably Dravidians such as Tamils; and the aboriginal peoples of Melanesia and Micronesia.[15]

Definitions

See also: Black people

The African Union has defined the African diaspora as "[consisting] of people of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union." Its constitutive act declares that it shall "invite and encourage the full participation of the African Diaspora as an important part of our Continent, in the building of the African Union."

Most societies that apply the "black" label on the basis of a person's ancestry justify it as to applying to members of the African diaspora.[citation needed] Between 1500 and 1900, approximately four million enslaved African were transported to island plantations in the Indian Ocean, about eight million were shipped to Mediterranean-area countries, and about eleven million survived the Middle Passage to the New World.[16] Their descendants are now found around the globe. Due to intermarriage and genetic assimilation, just who is a descendant of the African diaspora is not entirely self-evident.

A few examples of populations on continents away from Africa who are seen as "Black" or who see themselves as "Black" because they descend from native Africans are: African Americans and many Latin Americans.

African Americans — (see description above) or visit African American.

Afro-Latin Americans — Among the Afro-Latin American populations in South and Central America, there are populations that identify as negros. Some identify as Afro-Latin Americans when they have high levels of admixture of other ethnicities, as well.

Afro-Arabs — Various people of the Middle East whose ancestors were brought during the Arab slave trade period.[17]

Siddis — Black people of African descent in Pakistan and India. Many share the similar name "Saeed" (Sheedis, Shudra, and Siddi).

Destinations

North America

Several migration waves to the Americas, as well as relocations within the Americas, have brought people of African descent to North America. According to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the first African populations came to North America in the 16th century via Mexico and the Caribbean to the Spanish colonies of Florida, Texas and other parts of the South.[18] Out of the 12 million people from Africa who were shipped to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade,[19] 645,000 were shipped to the British colonies on the North American mainland and the United States; another 1,840,000 arrived at other British colonies, chiefly the West Indies.[20]

In the construction of the African Diaspora, the transatlantic slave trade is often considered the defining element, but people of African descent have engaged in eleven other migration movements involving North America since the 16th century, many being voluntary migrations, although undertaken in exploitative and hostile environments.[18]

In the 1860s, people from sub-Saharan Africa, mainly from West Africa and the Cape Verde Islands, started to arrive in a voluntary immigration wave to seek employment as whalers in Massachusetts. This migration continued until restrictive laws were enacted in 1921 that in effect closed the door on non-Europeans, but by that time, men of African ancestry were already a majority in New England’s whaling industry, with African Americans working as sailors, blacksmiths, shipbuilders, officers, and owners, eventually bringing their trade to California.[21]

1.7 million people in the United States are descended from voluntary immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. African immigrants represent 6 percent of all immigrants to the United States and almost 5 percent of the African American community nationwide. About 57 percent immigrated between 1990 and 2000.[22] Immigrants born in Africa constitute 1.6 percent of the black population. People of the African immigrant diaspora are the most educated population group in the United States — 50 percent have bachelor's or advanced degrees, compared to 23 percent of native-born Americans.[23]

The largest African communities in the United States are in New York, followed by California, Texas, and Maryland. The states with the highest percentages of Africans in their total populations are the District of Columbia, followed by Maryland, and Rhode Island. Refugees represent a minority.

U.S. Bureau of the Census categorizes the population by race based on self-identification.[24] The census surveys have no provision for a "multiracial" or "biracial" self-identity, but since 2000, respondents may check off more than one box and claim multiple ethnicity that way.

Latin America

At an intermediate level, in Latin America and in the former plantations in and around the Indian Ocean, descendants of enslaved people are a bit harder to define because many people are mixed in demographic proportion to the original slave population. In places that imported relatively few slaves (like Argentina), few if any are considered Black today.[25] In places that imported many enslaved people (like Aruba or Puerto Rico), the number is larger, but all are still of mixed ancestry.[26]

Europe

Main article: Afro-European

Most people of African descent living in Europe today arrived not due to slave trade, but to recent immigration.[citation needed] There are about 1.2 million British Afro-Caribbeans, a group largely attributable to immigration from the British West Indies after World War II. Of course these Afro-Caribbeans were chiefly descended from diasporic Africans brought to the West Indies centuries before by the slave trade.

France has about 12 million residents of African descent, largely from North Africa: Algeria (between 4 and 6 million) and the Maghreb generally (around 8 million),[27] the Netherlands ca. 700,000, and Germany ca. 300,000. Altogether, the European population with African ancestry is estimated at more than 5 million.

Estimated population and distribution

Continent / Country Country population Afro-descendants [28]population
Caribbean 31,475,027.00 87.4% 28,646,333.58
Haiti 8,608,504.00 95.00% 8,308,504.00
Jamaica[29] 2,758,124.00 89.20% 2,708,477.77
Trinidad and Tobago 1,065,842.00 58.00% 618,188.36
Guyana 767,245.00 36.00% 276,208.20
Suriname 439,117.00 41.00% 180,037.97
The Bahamas[30] 303,770.00 85.00% 258,204.50
Belize 287,730.00 31.00% 89,196.30
Barbados 279,912.00 90.00% 251,920.80
Netherlands Antilles 221,736.00 85.00% 188,475.60
French Guiana 199,509.00 66.00% 131,675.94
Saint Lucia 168,458.00 90.00% 151,612.20
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 117,848.00 85.00%

100,170.80

Virgin Islands 108,605.00 79.70% 86,558.19
Grenada 89,703.00 95.00% 85,217.85
Bermuda 65,773.00 61.20% 40,253.08
Cayman Islands 45,436.00 60.00% 27,261.60
Saint Kitts and Nevis 39,129.00 90.00%

39,129.00

Cuba 11,382,820.00 34.66% 3.905,807
British Virgin Islands 23,098.00 83.00% 19,171.34
Dominican Republic 9,183,984.00 11.00% 1,010,238.24
Puerto Rico 3,927,188.00 8.00% 314,175.04
Europe 190,856,462.00 2.1% 4,017,583.06
United Kingdom 60,609,153.00 2.9% (inc. partial) 2,015,400.00
France[31][32] 62,752,136.00 3.0% 1,900,000.00
Spain 40,397,842.00 1.3% 505,400.00
Netherlands[33] 16,491,461.00 1.8% 300,000.00
Portugal 10,605,870.00 0.9% 100,000.00
South America/Central America 319,038,336 35.3% 112,645,204.92
Brazil 188,078,227.00 44.70% 84,070,967.47
Colombia 43,593,035.00 21.00% 9,154,537.35
Venezuela[34] 25,730,435.00 10.00% 2,573,043.50
Ecuador 13,547,510.00 3.00% 406,425.30
Honduras 7,326,496.00 2.00% 146,529.92
Nicaragua 5,570,129.00 9.00% 501,311.61
Costa Rica 4,075,261.00 3.00% 122,257.83
Panama 3,191,319.00 14.00% 446,784.66
Uruguay 3,431,932.00 4.00% 137,277.28
North America 440,244,038 11.8% 39,264,513.74
United States[35] 298,444,215.00 12.90% 38,499,303.74
Canada[36] 33,098,932.00 2% 662,210
Mexico 108,700,891.00 <1.00% 103,000
Sub-Saharan Africa 770,300,000 99% 767,000,000
Outside Africa 5,821,000,000 2.9% 168,879,165.2
Total 6,581,000,000 14.2% 936,384,565.20

Note that population statistics from different sources and countries use highly divergent methods of rating the "race", ethnicity, or national or genetic origin of individuals, from observing for color and racial characteristics, to asking the person to choose from a set of pre-defined choices, sometimes with an Other category, and sometimes with an open-ended option, and sometimes not, which different national populations tend to choose in divergent ways. Color and visual characteristics were considered an invalid way to determine the genetic "racial" branch in anthopology (the field of science that original conceived of "race", as a genetic branch of people who could have a relative success together compared with other branches, now considered invalid) as of 1910.

Top 10 African Diaspora populations

Country Population Rank
Brazil 84,070,967 1
United States 38,499,303 2
Colombia 9,154,537 3
Haiti 8,308,504 4
Cuba 3.905,807 5
Venezuela 2,573,043 6
Jamaica 2,708,477 7
United Kingdom 2,015,400 8
France 1,900,000 9
Dominican Republic 1,010,238 10

The Americas

  • African Americans - There are an estimated 40 million people of African descent in the US. Note that this figure (here, and in the chart, above) directly conflicts with information in this same article that says that 30% of US people have genetic content from the [post 1400] African diaspora.
  • Afro-Latin American- There are an estimated 100 million people of African descent living in Latin America, making up 45 % of Brazil's population.[37] There are also sizeable African populations in Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
  • The population in the Caribbean is approximately 31 million. Significant numbers of African-descended people include Haiti- 8 million, Cuba- 3.8 million, Dominican Republic- 3.3 million, Jamaica - 2.5 million,[38]

Canada

Main article: African Canadian

Much of the earliest black presence in Canada came from the United States, comprising former slaves who escaped along the Underground Railroad to locations in Nova Scotia and Southwestern Ontario.[citation needed] Slavery had begun to be outlawed in British North America as early as 1793. Later black immigration to Canada came primarily from the Caribbean, in such numbers that fully 70 per cent of all blacks now in Canada are of Caribbean origin.

As a result of the prominence of Caribbean immigration, the term "African Canadian", while sometimes used to refer to the minority of Canadian blacks who have direct African or African American heritage, is not normally used to denote all black Canadians. Blacks of Caribbean origin may be denoted as "Caribbean Canadian" or "Afro-Caribbean Canadian", but there remains no widely used alternative to "Black Canadian" which is considered inclusive of both the African Canadian and Caribbean Canadian communities.

Europe

Main article: Afro-European

United Kingdom

2.0 million (inc. British Mixed) split evenly between African-Caribbeans and Africans, see also Black British. Cities with notable Black British populations

see: Black British

France

5 million of Sub-Saharan African descent[39].

Netherlands

300, 000 of Surinamese descent.

Russia

While there may have been black people in Russia early on[40] the first blacks in Russia was the result of slave trade by the Ottoman empire[41] and their descendants still live on the coasts of the Black Sea. Czar Peter the Great was recommended by his friend Lefort to bring in Africans to Russia for hard labor. Alexander Pushkin was the descendant of the African slave Abram Petrovich Gannibal, who became Peter's protege, was educated as a military engineer in France, and eventually became general-en-chef, responsible for the building of sea forts and canals in Russia.

During the 1930s fifteen Black American families moved to the Soviet Union as agricultural experts.[42]As African states became independent in the 1960s, the Soviet Union offered them the chance to study in Russia; over 40 years, 400,000 African students came, and many settled there.[43][44]

Note that there are also non-African people within the former Soviet Union who are colloquially referred to as "the blacks" (chernye), and often face social discrimination. Gypsies, Georgians, and Tatars fall into this category [45].

See also Racism in Russia.

See also

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  40. ^ Black colchians black russians yes they exist
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