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According to a study conducted in 2011, the African American DNA consists on average of 73.2% West African, 24% European and 0.8% Native American DNA. [127] The European ancestry of African Americans is largely patrilineal with an estimated 19% of African American ancestors being European males, and 5% being European females. [127]
African-American English is a variety (dialect, ethnolect, and sociolect) of American English, commonly spoken by urban working-class and largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans. [ 296 ] African American English evolved during the antebellum period through interaction between speakers of 16th- and 17th-century English of Great ...
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned ...
A majority of African American women worked as servants, and they were paid even less than men. In 1948, 6 out of 10 African American women worked as servants. In 1998, African Americans were one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial groups in the United States. Over half of the black population in America worked a white-collar job.
In 1980, 5,000 people came to a symposium organized by Smitherman at Wayne State University, where the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin delivered an address on Black English, telling ...
The Great Migration throughout the 20th century (starting from World War I) [5] [6] resulted in more than six million African Americans leaving the Southern U.S. (especially rural areas) and moving to other parts of the United States (especially to urban areas) due to the greater economic/job opportunities, less anti-black violence/lynchings ...
With Winfrey the only African American wealthy enough to rank among America's 400 richest people, [223] African Americans currently comprise 0.25% of America's economic elite and comprise 13.6% of the U.S. population. [224]
"It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country," Bush said.