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  2. African-American culture - Wikipedia

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    African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.

  3. Racial inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Avery and Rendall used 1989 SCF data to discover that the mean value in 2002 of white Americans' inheritances was 5.46 times that of African Americans', compared to 3.65 that of current wealth. White Americans received a mean of $28,177 that accounted for 20.7% of their mean wealth while African Americans received a mean of $5,165 that ...

  4. African Americans - Wikipedia

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    African Americans also have higher prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer's disease compared to the overall average. [200] [201] African-Americans are more likely than White Americans to die due to health-related problems developed by alcoholism. Alcohol abuse is the main contributor to the top 3 causes of death among African Americans. [202]

  5. African-American patriotism - Wikipedia

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    Johnson describes bystanders as African Americans who lack patriotism for the United States and are detached from American history and values. [1] Furthermore, these individuals also tend to be detached from blackness and often espouse a color-blind , meritocratic understanding of society.

  6. Black nationalism - Wikipedia

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    Tunde Adeleke, Nigerian-born professor of History and Director of the African American Studies program at the University of Montana, argues in his book UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission that 19th-century African American nationalism embodied the racist and paternalistic values of Euro-American ...

  7. African-American self-determination - Wikipedia

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    African-American self determination refers to efforts to secure self-determination for African-Americans and related peoples in North America. It often intersects with the historic Back-to-Africa movement and general Black separatism, but also manifests in present and historic demands for self-determination on North American soil, ranging from autonomy to independence.

  8. Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United ...

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    Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]

  9. Nigrescence - Wikipedia

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    At this stage a person might adapt a more nuanced definition of Blackness and reject simplistic either-or definitions. A person's values and cultural style are rooted in informed African heritage and history. The person is connected spiritually and psychologically to an African-descended community.