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Has anyone mentioned the other cities/areas in southern New England? Many have Cape Verdean, Caribbean(Latino and non Latino) and other African refugee/immigrant communities as well as African Americans. Providence, Hartford, New Haven, Pawtucket, Bridgeport, New Bedford, Brockton and Waterbury come to mind.
Also, the Black communities/populations in the Canadian Maritimes are similar to communities you see in the northern portion of the Bos-Wash corridor. Nova Scotia especially fits, with most Black people descending from African Americans, but also some with roots in the Caribbean(especially Barbados in the Cape Breton) and some from other places as well. https://ansa.novascotia.ca/sites/def...sm%20Guide.pdf
Has anyone mentioned the other cities/areas in southern New England? Many have Cape Verdean, Caribbean(Latino and non Latino) and other African refugee/immigrant communities as well as African Americans. Providence, Hartford, New Haven, Pawtucket, Bridgeport, New Bedford, Brockton and Waterbury come to mind.
Also, the Black communities/populations in the Canadian Maritimes are similar to communities you see in the northern portion of the Bos-Wash corridor. Nova Scotia especially fits, with most Black people descending from African Americans, but also some with roots in the Caribbean(especially Barbados in the Cape Breton) and some from other places as well. https://ansa.novascotia.ca/sites/def...sm%20Guide.pdf
True, Nova Scotia received a bit of Caribbean immigration in the early 20th century, though it's only a small minority of the Nova Scotia Black population. There was also some Caribbean immigration to Toronto and Montreal at the time, though of course these earlier communities were tiny compared to the immigration over the past 40 or 50 years.
Both jazz legend Oscar Peterson and Lincoln Alexander, the first Black Canadian Member of Parliament and later Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, were of Caribbean parentage.
Has anyone mentioned the other cities/areas in southern New England? Many have Cape Verdean, Caribbean(Latino and non Latino) and other African refugee/immigrant communities as well as African Americans. Providence, Hartford, New Haven, Pawtucket, Bridgeport, New Bedford, Brockton and Waterbury come to mind.
Also, the Black communities/populations in the Canadian Maritimes are similar to communities you see in the northern portion of the Bos-Wash corridor. Nova Scotia especially fits, with most Black people descending from African Americans, but also some with roots in the Caribbean(especially Barbados in the Cape Breton) and some from other places as well. https://ansa.novascotia.ca/sites/def...sm%20Guide.pdf
Truth of the matter is most black people don't want to acknowledge these populations because they don't go north of NYC and they don't have a concept of how different and large the black community is in Southern New England. Don't forget Worsecter, MA which has a huge Ghanaian population and a smaller AA population. A lot of blacks either don't have family in New England so don't get up there and think there's no black people there. Or they think its too cold and racist and end up thinking places like Washington Dc have diverse black communities which is truly laughable. This point has already been made but ppl would rather be ignorant of the statistics and reality. There truly isn't room for debate when the numbers are so clear. NYC CT RI MA have BY A HUGE MARGIN the most diverse black commu its. Also keep in mind those small three tiny New England states have 900k black people in them. Hartford Pawtucket and Brockton are unimaginable anywhere else.
Truth of the matter is most black people don't want to acknowledge these populations because they don't go north of NYC and they don't have a concept of how different and large the black community is in Southern New England. Don't forget Worsecter, MA which has a huge Ghanaian population and a smaller AA population. A lot of blacks either don't have family in New England so don't get up there and think there's no black people there. Or they think its too cold and racist and end up thinking places like Washington Dc have diverse black communities which is truly laughable. This point has already been made but ppl would rather be ignorant of the statistics and reality. There truly isn't room for debate when the numbers are so clear. NYC CT RI MA have BY A HUGE MARGIN the most diverse black commu its. Also keep in mind those small three tiny New England states have 900k black people in them. Hartford Pawtucket and Brockton are unimaginable anywhere else.
Yep. Southern New England has quite the collection of Black diaspora. Boston being the pinnacle of it as well.
Is it safe to say that in terms of a diverse black population it goes like this:
NYC, DC...gap... Atlanta/Miami..smaller gap.. Boston/Philly..another small gap..Houston?
I thought whoever said that 5,000 people was a comfortable number to develop some specialized culture in a city was right on. The first 6 cities I just named have at least 9 groups of people from different countries numbering greater than 5000.
Seems to me, that alot of the pro black movements in the history of this country have been headed by Black immigrants. From Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan. What differences in culture and language Black Americans have from Black foreigners, the shared history of African Ancestry, and Slavery and oppression at the hands of White Supremacy is what Black Americans with roots in the South have in common with Black foreigners. That's what made Farrakhan and Marcus Garvey more embraced even more so in the Black American community than in the WI communities in which they came from. It makes sense, given the colorism and pro-European/Anti-African attitudes in some of the WI countries.
Is it safe to say that in terms of a diverse black population it goes like this:
NYC, DC...gap... Atlanta/Miami..smaller gap.. Boston/Philly..another small gap..Houston?
I thought whoever said that 5,000 people was a comfortable number to develop some specialized culture in a city was right on. The first 6 cities I just named have at least 9 groups of people from different countries numbering greater than 5000.
I'd put Boston and Miami with DC(Where Miami and Boston compete with DC is percentage of foreign-born blacks). DC while having a diverse array of continental Africans and WI's, it's overall Black population is still predominantly AA. If there were any gaps it'd be between NYC and everywhere else. And if there is a gap between DC and Boston/Miami, it's small one.
Miami is certainly heavily immigrant, but it lacks a significant African population. DC has a good number of African nationalities (both East and West African), but I don't think the Caribbean population is very big.
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