African-Latin Americans ( Spanish: Afro-Latino , also “preto”, “negro”, “pardo”) are the inhabitants of Latin America , having a physiologically noticeable Negro origin. Unlike African-Americans in the United States , who were forced to maintain a largely isolated lifestyle, Afro-Latinos largely lost or significantly modified the culture of their ancestors , and are now associated with linguistic and cultural elements typical of the entire population of Latin America as a whole. On the other hand, white Hispanics , unlike US white Americans, have learned many elements of African and Native American cultures. Such a mixture of races ( mestisation ) is a typical phenomenon in all countries of Latin America, where the so-called rule of one drop of blood has not been applied in practice, and therefore the majority of the population has some kind of admixture of African blood, although outwardly Negroid features may be poorly noticeable. In Latin America itself, the term African-Latin Americans are usually not used outside the narrow academic circles involved in the study of international history.
| African Latino | |
|---|---|
| Total: Over 100,000,000 | |
| Language | Spanish , Portuguese , Creole , French |
| Religion | Catholicism and local |
Content
- 1 Geographical distribution
- 2 History
- 3 African-Latino
- 4 See also
- 5 notes
Geographical distribution
Of the 550 million people in Latin America, about 100 million identify as African-Latin Americans, although about 80% have some kind of African blood. The most "Africanized" countries located along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean, which, due to their geographical position, received the largest number of blacks - slaves . Among them stand out:
- Haiti
- Brazil
- Dominican Republic
- Cuba
- Venezuela
- Colombia
- French guiana
History
Negroes arrived in North and South America as slaves from West and Central Africa with the Spaniards and Portuguese in the 15th, 16th century. Most of the slaves were sent to Brazil , Peru to the islands of the Caribbean , a minority to Colombia and Venezuela . Countries with significant black populations Brazil (86 million), Colombia (10 million), Haiti (8.7 million), Dominican Republic (8 million), Cuba (up to 4 million people), and Puerto Rico (20% -46%).
Coexistence with Spaniards, Portuguese, French and indigenous peoples has produced new languages (palenquero, garifuna and creole ), religions (e.g. candomblé, abakuá, santería, lucumi and voodoo ), music (kompa, salsa, bachata , cumbia, Palo de Mayo , plenums), dancing ( samba , rumba ), capoeira martial art. Many of the cultural assets created by African-Latin Americans have become common in Latin America.
African-American population
| Region / Country | Population of the country | Descendants of blacks | [1] population |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Caribbean | 39 148 115 | 73.2% | 28 671 508 |
| Haiti | 8 924 553 | 99.5% | 8 701 439 |
| Dominican Republic | 9 507 133 | 84.0% | 7 985 991 |
| Cuba [2] | 11 423 925 | between 10.1-24.8% | 3 905 817 |
| Puerto rico | 3 958 128 | 18.0% | 316,650 * |
| South America / Central America | 425 664 476 | 23.9% | 101 532 873 |
| Guatemala | 13 002 206 | 1,0% | 260,044 |
| Salvador | 7 066 403 | <0.01% | 0 * |
| Honduras | 7 639 327 | 2.0% | 152,787 |
| Nicaragua | 5 785 846 | 9.0% | 520 726 |
| Costa Rica | 4 195 914 | 3.0% | 125 877 |
| Panama | 3,292,693 | 14.0% | 460 977 |
| Colombia | 45 013 674 | 21.0% | 9 452 872 |
| Venezuela [3] [4] | 26,414,815 | between 10-26.5% | 2 641 481 - 6 999 926 * |
| French guiana | 199 509 | 66.0% | 131,676 |
| Brazil | 191 908 598 | 44.7% | 85 783 143 |
| Ecuador | 13 927 650 | 5.0% | 417,830 |
| Peru [5] | 29 180 899 | 3.0% | 140,000 |
| Bolivia | 9,247,816 | 1.1% | 108,000 |
| Chile | 16 454 143 | <0.1% | 0 * |
| Paraguay | 6 831 306 | 1,0% | 63,000 |
| Argentina | 40 677 348 | 0.1% | 52,000 |
| Uruguay | 3 477 778 | 4.0% | 139 111 |
| North America | 440,244,038 | 11.8% | 39,264,514 |
| USA [6] | 299 398 485 | 0.2% | 616 953 |
| Mexico | 108 700 891 | <1.0% | 103,000 |
| Sub-saharan africa | 770.3 million | 99% | 767 million |
| Outside of Africa | 5,821,000,000 | 2.9% | 168 879 165 |
| Completely | 6 581 000 000 | 14.2% | 936 384 565 |
See also
- White Hispanics
Notes
- ↑ CIA - The World Factbook
- ↑ CIA - The World Factbook - Cuba
- ↑ Venezuela
- ↑ Seeing Black (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 3, 2008. Archived January 13, 2009.
- ↑ Afro-Peruvian . Joshua Project . US Center for World Mission. Date of treatment August 25, 2008. Archived March 21, 2012.
- ↑ Hispanic or Latino Origin by Race . 2006 American Community Survey . US Census Bureau (2006). Date of treatment July 29, 2008. Archived March 21, 2012.