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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 work primarily on various sugar plantations and in ...
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 ...
Afro-Caribbean culture in the United States (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Afro-Caribbean culture" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
In 1968, she founded the Afro-Boricua El Coqui Theater, which was recognized by the Panamerican Association of the New World Festival as the most important authority of Black Puerto Rican culture. The Theater group were given a contract which permitted them to present their act in other countries and in various universities in the United States ...
Afro-Caribbean music rose to popularity during the 20th century, exerting influence over many subsequent genres including jazz and hip-hop. [4] [1] Many of these sub-genres have been validated in recent years due to a newfound appreciation of afro-Caribbean culture and tradition. [1]
Afro-Caribbean culture in particular is rarely depicted on screen. It’s no secret that Hollywood, as an industry, has been slow to represent Black culture and real Black narratives on screen. # ...
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 ...
Merikins, Afro-Caribbean, African diaspora in the Americas, African Americans, Igbos, Akans, Kongos, Mandinkas, Ibibios, Yoruba Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians , also known as Afro-Trinbagonians or Black Trinidadians and Tobagonians , are people from Trinidad and Tobago who are of Sub-Saharan African descent, mostly from West Africa .