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Afro-Guatemalan (Spanish: Afroguatemaltecos) or Black Guatemalans (Spanish: Guatemaltecos negros) are Guatemalans of predominantly or total Black African ancestry. This term intertwines the conquest of America by the Spanish. The Afro-Guatemalan population is not numerous today.
Guatemalans (Spanish: guatemaltecos or less commonly guatemalenses) are people connected to the country of Guatemala. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural.
The Guatemalan civil war from 1960 to 1996 led to mass emigration, particularly Guatemalan immigration to the United States. According to the International Organization for Migration, the total number of emigrants increased from 6,700 in the 1960s to 558,776 for the period 1995–2000; by 2005, the total number had reached 1.3 million. [38]
The terms mestizo or mameluco, mulatto, the general term castas, and dozens of subcategories of racial identity frankly recognized the outcomes of interracial sexual activity in Latin America and established a continuum of race rather than the unrealistic absolute categories of white, black, or Indian as used in the United States. (The U.S ...
Few Guatemalan children have arrived in the U.S. through a program aimed to reunite them with parents in the U.S., a report by Refugees International found.
Guatemalans in Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Raleigh, N.C., and other locations have until March 25 to register to vote in the June 25 presidential election.
Guatemalan Jews (6 P) I. Indigenous peoples in Guatemala (10 C, 20 P) J. Jews and Judaism in Guatemala (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Guatemala"
Immigration in Guatemala constitutes less than 1%, some 140,000 people, and most come from neighboring countries. Guatemala's historic ethnic composition is mostly immigrant stock from Europe and as well as Asian and Africans brought during the era of slavery.