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What is your definition of "Black" in America?
What is your definition of "Black" in America?
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Black and African Americans
Main articles: African Americans and Black Hispanic and Latino Americans
Black and African Americans are citizens and residents of the United States with origins in Sub-Saharan Africa.[33] According to the Office of Management and Budget, the grouping includes individuals who self-identify as African American, as well as persons who emigrated from nations in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.[34] The grouping is thus based on geography, and may contradict or misrepresent an individual's self-identification since not all immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa are "Black". Among these racial outliers are persons from Cape Verde, Madagascar, various Arab states and Hamito-Semiticpopulations in East Africa and the Sahel, and the Afrikaners of Southern Africa.[33]
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.[35] According to the 2009 American Community Survey, there were 38,093,725 Black and African Americans in the United States, representing 12.4% of the population. In addition, there were 37,144,530 non-Hispanic blacks, which comprised 12.1% of the population.[36] This number increased to 42 million according to the 2010 United States Census, when including Multiracial African Americans,[34] making up 14% of the total U.S. population.[a][38] Black and African Americans make up the second largest group in the United States, but the third largest group after White Americans and Hispanic or Latino Americans (of any race).[39] The majority of the population (55%) lives in the South; compared to the 2000 Census, there has also been a decrease of African Americans in the Northeast and Midwest.[38]
Most African Americans are the direct descendants of captives from West Africa, who survived the slavery era within the boundaries of the present United States.[40] As an adjective, the term is usually spelled African-American.[41] The first West African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. The English settlers treated these captives as indentured servants and released them after a number of years. This practice was gradually replaced by the system of race-based slavery used in the Caribbean.[42] All the American colonies had slavery, but it was usually the form of personal servants in the North (where 2% of the people were slaves), and field hands in plantations in the South (where 25% were slaves);[43] by the beginning of the American Revolutionary War 1/5th of the total population was enslaved.[44] During the revolution, some would serve in the Continental Army or Continental Navy,[45][46] while others would serve the British Empire in Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, and other units.[47] By 1804, the northern states (north of the Mason–Dixon line) had abolished slavery.[48] However, slavery would persist in the southern states until the end of the American Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.[49]Following the end of the Reconstruction Era, which saw the first African American representation in Congress,[50] African Americans became disenfranchised and subject to Jim Crow laws,[51] legislation that would persist until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act due to the Civil Rights Movement.[52]
According to US Census Bureau data, very few African immigrants self-identify as African American. On average, less than 5% of African residents self-reported as "African American" or "Afro-American" on the 2000 US Census. The overwhelming majority of African immigrants (~95%) identified instead with their own respective ethnicities. Self-designation as "African American" or "Afro-American" was highest among individuals from West Africa (4%-9%), and lowest among individuals from Cape Verde, East Africa and Southern Africa (0%-4%).[53] African immigrants may also experience conflict with African Americans.[54]
Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Main articles: African Americans and Black Hispanic and Latino Americans
Black and African Americans are citizens and residents of the United States with origins in Sub-Saharan Africa.[33] According to the Office of Management and Budget, the grouping includes individuals who self-identify as African American, as well as persons who emigrated from nations in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.[34] The grouping is thus based on geography, and may contradict or misrepresent an individual's self-identification since not all immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa are "Black". Among these racial outliers are persons from Cape Verde, Madagascar, various Arab states and Hamito-Semiticpopulations in East Africa and the Sahel, and the Afrikaners of Southern Africa.[33]
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.[35] According to the 2009 American Community Survey, there were 38,093,725 Black and African Americans in the United States, representing 12.4% of the population. In addition, there were 37,144,530 non-Hispanic blacks, which comprised 12.1% of the population.[36] This number increased to 42 million according to the 2010 United States Census, when including Multiracial African Americans,[34] making up 14% of the total U.S. population.[a][38] Black and African Americans make up the second largest group in the United States, but the third largest group after White Americans and Hispanic or Latino Americans (of any race).[39] The majority of the population (55%) lives in the South; compared to the 2000 Census, there has also been a decrease of African Americans in the Northeast and Midwest.[38]
Most African Americans are the direct descendants of captives from West Africa, who survived the slavery era within the boundaries of the present United States.[40] As an adjective, the term is usually spelled African-American.[41] The first West African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. The English settlers treated these captives as indentured servants and released them after a number of years. This practice was gradually replaced by the system of race-based slavery used in the Caribbean.[42] All the American colonies had slavery, but it was usually the form of personal servants in the North (where 2% of the people were slaves), and field hands in plantations in the South (where 25% were slaves);[43] by the beginning of the American Revolutionary War 1/5th of the total population was enslaved.[44] During the revolution, some would serve in the Continental Army or Continental Navy,[45][46] while others would serve the British Empire in Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, and other units.[47] By 1804, the northern states (north of the Mason–Dixon line) had abolished slavery.[48] However, slavery would persist in the southern states until the end of the American Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.[49]Following the end of the Reconstruction Era, which saw the first African American representation in Congress,[50] African Americans became disenfranchised and subject to Jim Crow laws,[51] legislation that would persist until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act due to the Civil Rights Movement.[52]
According to US Census Bureau data, very few African immigrants self-identify as African American. On average, less than 5% of African residents self-reported as "African American" or "Afro-American" on the 2000 US Census. The overwhelming majority of African immigrants (~95%) identified instead with their own respective ethnicities. Self-designation as "African American" or "Afro-American" was highest among individuals from West Africa (4%-9%), and lowest among individuals from Cape Verde, East Africa and Southern Africa (0%-4%).[53] African immigrants may also experience conflict with African Americans.[54]
Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean Jacket
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Of African descent, and you are melinated living in America.
K.O.N.Y
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To be of African descent and connected to the lineage of men and women who were enslaved in America
It means either you are a person descended from the slaves brought here or you are a person of African/Afro Caribbean descent who migrated here.
The BasedFather
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Anything that's the color black, located in the country of America.
i.e. cars, dogs, shoes...ect
i.e. cars, dogs, shoes...ect
2 black parents 
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2 black parents
Yeah because in the 1940's Hallie Berry would have been unbothered sitting in the front of a crowded bus full of whites.
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Of African DESCENT. 3 or more black grandparents
50-50 is mulatto outside of the USA but in America you got the 1 drop rule
50-50 is mulatto outside of the USA but in America you got the 1 drop rule
i don't give a f*ck what white people think about it
in the 1940's you could be 12.5 percent black and still considered black. you dumb n*ggas can go along with that if you wantwhite people once classed blacks as 3/5 of a person. does your stupid ass cosign that too?one drop rule is based on white people feeling like blacks are inferior.
if you don't have 2 black parents then you're biracial.
