Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominantly African descent. They represent the largest ethnic group in the country. The ethnogenesis of the Black Jamaican...
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disproportionately held by White Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans, Lebanese/Syrian Jamaicans, Indian Jamaicans and Mixed-race Jamaicans (or locally called the Brown...
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Jamaicans are the citizens of Jamaica and their descendants in the Jamaican diaspora. The vast majority of Jamaicans are of Sub-Saharan African descent...
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people would be the second-largest reported ethnic group in Jamaica, after Afro-Jamaicans. The first wave of Irish immigrants occurred in the early 17th...
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Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century;...
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uncommon for Jamaicans to identify themselves by race as is prominent in other countries such as the United States, with most Jamaicans seeing Jamaican nationality...
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Rastafari (category Afro-Caribbean religion)
people". The movement began among Afro-Jamaicans who wanted to reject the British colonial culture that dominated Jamaica and replace it with a new identity...
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Enslaved British Romani people were sometimes sent to Jamaica during colonial rule. Some free Black Jamaicans owned Romani slaves and reports exist of Romani...
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Americans of Jamaican ancestry. Many Jamaicans are second, third and descend from even older generations, as there have been Jamaicans in the U.S. as...
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Afro-Grenadian Afro-Guatemalan Afro-Guyanese Afro-Haitians Afro-Hondurans Afro-Jamaican Afro-Kittian and Nevisian Afro-Martinicans Afro-Mexicans Afro-Nicaraguan...
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Donald J. Harris (category Recipients of the Order of Merit (Jamaica))
Town, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son of Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan), who were Afro-Jamaicans. As a child, Harris learned...
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The Baymen were the earliest European settlers with Afro-Jamaicans and Creole-Jamaicans, along the Bay of Honduras in what eventually became the colony...
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British African-Caribbean people (redirect from British Afro-Caribbean community)
British African-Caribbean people or British Afro-Caribbean people are an ethnic group in the United Kingdom. They are British citizens whose recent ancestors...
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Afro-Asians, African Asians, Blasians, or simply Black Asians are people of mixed Asian and African ancestry. Historically, Afro-Asian populations have...
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Afro-Dutch or Black Dutch people are Dutch people who are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Afro-Dutch in the continental Netherlands are...
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European ancestry, Afro-Jamaicans, who were sampled in 2013, were found to be 81.4% (±15.9%) West African. The ancestry of Afro-Jamaicans, who were sampled...
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Grenada, Haiti, Belize, Barbados, and Jamaica, whose ancestors were brought in to build the Panama Canal. Afro-Panamanians can be found in the towns and...
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Marcus Garvey (category National Heroes of Jamaica)
him. In Jamaica, he continued giving speeches, including at a building in Kingston he had also named "Liberty Hall". He urged Afro-Jamaicans to raise...
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citizens. Christian revivalism was a key influence on Rastafari. Many Afro-Jamaicans joined Christian churches during the Great Revival of 1860–61. They...
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found in Jamaica's toffee-like sweet, Bustamante backbone. Due to the migration of British settlers, enslaved and emancipated Afro-Jamaicans and Creole...
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Americas Afro-Argentines Afro-Arubans Afro-Bolivians Afro-Brazilians Afro-Caribbean people Afro-Chileans Afro-Colombians Afro-Costa Ricans Afro-Cubans Afro-Curaçaoans...
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Myal (category Afro-Jamaican culture)
Myal is an Afro-Jamaican spirituality. It developed via the creolization of African religions during the slave era in Jamaica. It incorporates ritualistic...
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Kumina (category Afro-Jamaican culture)
Kumina is an Afro-Jamaican religion, dance and music form. Kumina has practices that include secular ceremonies, dance and music that developed from the...
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Obeah and wanga (category Afro-Jamaican culture)
The terms obeah and wanga are African diasporic words that occur in The Book of the Law (the sacred text of Thelema, written by English author and occultist...
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Afro-Caribbean migrant workers (mostly from Jamaica). They represent the largest group of Jamaicans living outside of Jamaica's Anglophone dominated diaspora. However...
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Obeah (category Afro-Jamaican culture)
cases, and relationship issues. Discussing the situation among Jamaicans and British Jamaicans in the 1970s, Venetia Newall noted that "respectable middle-class...
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Religions: Afro-Caribbean Religions". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved February 27, 2019. Bilby, Kenneth (1983). "How the "Older Heads" Talk: A Jamaican Maroon...
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Rice and peas (category Jamaican cuisine)
of gallo pinto can be traced back to Afro-Caribbean people, specifically Jamaicans. In the 1800s, Jewish Jamaicans, most notably the Lindo brothers who...
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defined by race but are labeled by the Colombian authorities as one of the Afro-Colombian ethnic groups under the multicultural policy pursued since 1991...
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Ottawa and Hamilton. The total number of Jamaicans in Canada has increased since the 1960s. Today, Jamaicans can be found in every major Canadian city...
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