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Many Afro-Guyanese people living in villages had migrated to the towns in search of work. [9] Until the 1930s, Afro-Guyanese people, especially those of mixed descent, comprised the bulk of the non-white professional class. [9] During the 1930s, as Indo-Guyanese began to enter the middle class in large numbers, they began to compete with Afro ...
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This is a list of notable Guyanese. This list includes people born in Guyana , notably of Guyanese descent, or otherwise strongly associated to Guyana. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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Within the West Indies context, the word is used only for one type of mixed race people: Afro-Indians. [2] The 2012 Guyana census identified 29.25% of the population as Afro-Guyanese, 39.83% as Indo-Guyanese, and 19.88% as "mixed," recognized as mostly representing the offspring of the former two groups. [3]
The following list of Guyanese artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Guyana, of Guyanese descent or who produce works that are primarily about Guyana.
Nicole Narain, Playboy model, has an Afro-Guyanese mother and her father, who is of mixed Indo-Guyanese and Chinese-Guyanese descent; Trevor Phillips, British politician; CCH Pounder, Guyanese-born American actress; Joy Reid, American news correspondent for MSNBC, Afro-Guyanese mother; Rihanna, Barbados-born singer/billionaire, Afro-Guyanese mother
Tiya Miles (2006), Ties that Bind: the Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. ISBN 0-520-24132-0; J. Leitch Wright (1999), The Only Land They Knew: American Indians in the Old South. ISBN 0-8032-9805-6; Patrick Minges (2004), Black Indians Slave Narratives. ISBN 0-89587-298-6