Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa. The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from West and Central Africa ) taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to ...

2023年11月21日 · There are four main ethnicities in the Caribbean. There are Indigenous people, African people, European people, and Asian people. Many people in the Caribbean are a mix of these. What is the...

Afro-Caribbean history (or African-Caribbean history) is the portion of Caribbean history that specifically discusses the Afro-Caribbean or Black racial (or ethnic) populations of the Caribbean region. Most Afro-Caribbean People are the descendants of captive Africans held in the Caribbean from 1502 to 1886 during the era of the Atlantic slave ...

People of Afro Caribbean descent today mainly have between 60-100% African ancestry, with their remaining DNA being of non-African ancestries, such as those of European and South Asian or native Caribbean descent, as there has been extensive intermarriage and unions among the peoples over the centuries.

2019年8月21日 · Afro-Caribbean is the shortened ethnicity term of African-Caribbean, which refers to the ethnicity and cultural heritage of Caribbean people whose ancestors were taken from Africa via the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the Caribbean Islands between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in domestic households.

Modern Caribbean people usually further identify by their own specific ethnic ancestry, therefore constituting various subgroups, of which are: Afro-Caribbean (largely descendants of bonded African slaves), Hispanic/Latino-Caribbean (people from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean who descend from solely or a mixture of Spaniards, West Africans ...

Most Caribbean people have African ancestors. It has been estimated that more than 1.6 million people were transported between Africa and the Caribbean between 1640 and 1807. Once in the...

2024年12月13日 · The term Afro-Caribbean is relatively new in academia. It was adopted as a response to the so-called invisibility of ethnic blacks while discussing issues of ethnicity. Although outwardly ethnic identity is considered more important than racial identity, the reality is that discrimination based on race is still predominant in all ethnic groups.

2024年6月22日 · The two ethnic groups that dominate the culture of the Caribbean are the African and European ethnicities. Their influences can be seen in various aspects of Caribbean culture, including language, music, dance, cuisine, and religious practices.

Within the Caribbean, people of African, European, American, Afro-Indian, Asian and Middle Eastern ethnic groups live together. Mixing cultures brings a variety of festivals, food, art and traditions to the Caribbean. It can also cause tensions.