They essentially all mean the same thing: "Americans who descend from USA's, African slaves"
Actually, it's been used since the 1700s!
Things got fuzzy after the Civil Right Act because of the bigger wave of black immigrants that weren't around when Aframs gave themselves the term "African American"
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Repost:
the afroamerican identity vs outsiders claiming the term was a talking point by Afroamericans long before ADOS was a thing
What has caused the decline of FBA / ADOS is the large amount of abortions. Of course there can be several reasons for this that could be factored in. But this is about the absolute numbers.
“Black women have the highest abortion ratio in the country, with 474 abortions per 1,000 live births. Percentages at these levels illustrate that more than 19 million black babies have been aborted since 1973.”
Another factor for the rise of non-FBA Blacks will be the inclusion of Afro-Latinos.
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And though most Afro-Latinos identify as Hispanic or Latino, not all do so, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on a survey of U.S. adults conducted from November 2019 to June 2020.”.
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"In Latin America’s colonial period,
about 15 times as manyAfrican slaves were taken to Spanish and Portuguese colonies than to the U.S. About 130 million people of African descent live in Latin America, and they make up roughly a quarter of the region’s total population, according to recent estimates from the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (
PERLA) at Princeton University."
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
www.pewresearch.org
“For the first time, the decennial census in 2020 prompted
all respondents to provide detailed race and ethnicity responses. We also made
improvements to question design, coding and processing, following extensive research and feedback from stakeholders and subject matter experts on detailed race and ethnicity reporting.
One of the improvements was using a combined
Hispanic Origin and Race Code List for coding data from the ethnicity and race questions. By combining the code lists, we expanded the number of groups that could be coded in each question. For example, if someone reported their detailed Hispanic origin response in the race question, we were easily able to code it because all detailed Hispanic origin groups are included in the newly combined code list.
Our improvements include adding distinct codes for the specific responses of Afro-Latino and of Garifuna, also known as Garinagu, allowing for the tabulation of the number of people who provided these specific terms in response to the ethnicity question. With the release of the
2020 Census Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A (Detailed DHC-A), those counts are now available.
The U.S. Census Bureau recognizes that the Afro-Latino population is not limited to people who responded by providing the specific terms of Afro-Latino or Garifuna within their responses to the ethnicity question. The primary way of deriving counts for the Afro-Latino population is by tabulating those who identified as Hispanic or Latino in the ethnicity question
and identified as Black or African American in the race question. Respondents could identify as Hispanic or Latino
and Black or African American in many ways – by checking multiple boxes and/or writing in specific identities. In this paper, we present three different ways of tabulating Afro-Latino responses.
Again, the Census Bureau used stakeholder feedback to determine how to code Afro-Latino and Garifuna responses, and we plan to continue engaging stakeholders as we prepare for the 2030 Census.”
Census counts for Afro-Latino and Garifuna were collected from the Hispanic origin question for the first time in Census Bureau history.
www.census.gov
Meanwhile,
"In 2022, there were
63.7 million Hispanics living in the United States. The U.S. Hispanic population has diverse origins in Latin America and Spain."
In 2022, there were 63.7 million Hispanics living in the United States. The U.S. Hispanic population has diverse origins in Latin America and Spain.
www.pewresearch.org