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Afro-Germans (German: Afrodeutsche) or Black Germans (German: schwarze Deutsche) are Germans of Sub-Saharan African descent.. Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following World War II and more recent immigration, have substantial Afro-German communities.
Pages in category "German people of African-American descent" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered ...
Ayim quotes newspaper articles and government reports to show how the German public conceived of the so-called "occupation babies," children born of German mothers and African-American soldiers stationed in Germany after the war. Ayim uses the prejudice against both the babies and their mothers to show how racism and sexism are often intertwined.
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau 's figures from 2022, German Americans make up roughly 41 million people in the US, which is approximately 12% of the population. [ 7 ]
The area historically had a smaller African-American population than many other regions of the South. During the 1840s, 11% of Rockingham County's population were enslaved people. By comparison, 57% of the four adjacent counties to the east of the Blue Ridge Mountains were enslaved African Americans. [1]
German people of Puerto Rican descent (3 P) Pages in category "German people of American descent" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
By 1968, Americans had adopted about 7,000 "brown babies." [16] Many of the "brown babies" did not learn of their ethnic German ancestry until they reached adulthood. [17] African American newspapers, which had been vocal about equality in the military during the course of the war, took up the cause of the German and English Brown Babies.