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Old 03-19-2015, 07:48 PM
 
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Your comment about relating to Black American culture really isn't relevant to a most diverse Black communities list.
Yes it is, when the culture most Afro-Latinos celebrate is LATINO culture and not Black American---or even just Black---culture.

But he is right that Black Cubans are generally the only Afro Latinos who are as proud of their African heritage as they are of their Latino heritage, rather than denying their blackness (Sorry, I didn't catch it when it said that). Dominicans are hands down the worst when it comes to that, though...
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Old 03-19-2015, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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I pulled the Ancestry statistics for some of the CSA's:

Boston:


Puerto Rican: 210,901
Dominican: 136,361
Cape Verdean: 70,387
Haitian: 66,151
Brazilian: 65,536
Jamaican: 19,721
Cuban: 12,327
Nigerian: 7,539
Trinidadian: 5,512
Barbadian: 4,922
Liberian: 4,812
Ethiopian: 4,690
Kenyan: 3,717
Ghanaian: 3,915
Panamanian: 3,319
Somalian: 2,103
South African: 1,487
Sudanese: 1,341


Philadelphia:

Puerto Rican: 281,907
Dominican: 35,707
Jamaican: 27,236
Haitian: 18,152
Cuban: 12,939
Liberian: 8,532
Brazilian: 7,436
Nigerian: 6,172
Trinidadian: 5,204
Panamanian: 3,166
Ethiopian: 2,664
Ghanaian: 2,396
Barbadian: 2,188
Kenyan: 1,732
Sierra Leonean: 1,092
South African: 937

Washington DC:

Puerto Rican: 69,689
Jamaican: 41,012
Ethiopian: 34,829
Nigerian: 28,470
Cuban: 18,431
Dominican: 17,992
Ghanaian: 15,470
Trinidadian: 11,877
Haitian: 11,773
Brazilian: 9,884
Panamanian: 7,731
Liberian: 5,975
Sierra Leonean: 5,119
Sudanese: 3,530
Somalian: 3,371
Kenyan: 3,120
Barbadian: 1,796
South African: 1,537
Congolese: 1,494
Grenadian: 1,487
Senegalese: 1,446
Cape Verdean: 1,356
Bahamian: 1,068


Miami:

Cuban: 927,729
Haitian: 273,174
Puerto Rican: 207,686
Jamaican: 158,173
Dominican: 90,024
Brazilian: 44,449
Bahamian: 18,081
Trinidadian: 15,073
Panamanian: 12,365
Nigerian: 2,907
Barbadian: 2,841
South African: 2,499
Belizean: 2,283
Antiguan: 1,640
Grenadian: 1,076
St. Lucian: 982

Atlanta:

Jamaican: 43,410
Puerto Rican: 37,775
Haitian: 19,830
Cuban: 17,996
Nigerian: 17,022
Dominican: 11,312
Brazilian: 10,409
Ethiopian: 9,449
Trinidadian: 6,246
Panamanian: 3,833
Ghanian: 3,431
South African: 3,020
Bahamian: 2,590
Liberian: 2,251
Somalian: 2,038
Barbadian: 1,945
Kenyan: 1,822

Houston:

Puerto Rican: 25,153
Nigerian: 21,412
Cuban: 16,422
Jamaican: 8,338
Dominican: 4,185
Brazilian: 4,185
Ethiopian: 3,707
Trinidadian: 3,210
Panamanian: 2,878
Haitian: 2,346
Belizean: 2,214
South African: 1,197
Ghanaian: 1,035

New York:

Puerto Rican: 1,419,132
Dominican: 834,536
Jamaican: 353,528
Haitian: 237,776
Cuban: 145,824
Trinidadian: 98,711
Brazilian: 70,759
Nigerian: 42,633
Panamanian: 33,284
Ghanaian: 30,868
Barbadian: 29,446
Grenadian: 20,017
Vincent-Grenadine Islander: 10,383
Antigun: 8,078
St. Lucian: 7,797
Belizean: 7,690
Liberian: 6,194
South African: 5,962
Ethiopian: 5,318
Cape Verdean: 4,942
Senegalese: 3,556
Kenyan: 2,644
Sierra Leonean: 2,494
Sudanese: 2,548
Bahamian: 2,006
Congolese: 1,137
Somalian: 1,041


I will also pull a few other cities when I have time. Let me know if there are any specific ones you want to see.

Also before anyone says it, I know that many of these countries have people that identify as a race other than Black. I just think that we need to include them all because its impossible to paint a picture of Black diversity if you do not include Latin American countries. Many of whom share a similar history to many West Indian countries.
First thing that jumps out at me is how few Ethiopians there are outside of DC. Given the popularity of their cuisine, I figured they would be higher than some other countries but I guess not.
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Old 03-19-2015, 08:00 PM
 
Location: Cambridge, MA/London, UK
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Yes it is, when the culture most Afro-Latinos celebrate is LATINO culture and not Black American---or even just Black---culture.

But he is right that Black Cubans are generally the only Afro Latinos who are as proud of their African heritage as they are of their Latino heritage, rather than denying their blackness (Sorry, I didn't catch it when it said that). Dominicans are hands down the worst when it comes to that, though...
The Henry Louis Gates special "Black in Latin America" definitely profiled the complexities of race and how Dominicans view themselves. I do find that many of the American born Dominicans are more willing to embrace their "blackness" so to speak. Either way it still does not mean that many are not black. Someone like David Ortiz for example is probably genetically more African than me and I am from Jamaica.

Black Brazilians from my experience are very proud of their racial identity. I know there are some complexities there as well of course. Also from personal experience Panamanians who are black are very self aware racially (I am 1/4 Panamanian myself) and can speak at length about their connection to the West Indies.
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Old 03-19-2015, 08:43 PM
 
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Here's the Black adult population (18+) that's foreign born for selected metros and percentage of the Black population. Even in large Black immigrant communities, the children are usually US-born; in New York, Miami and Boston less than 10% of Black children were foreign born. So by limiting it to the adult population, we have a better sense of the share of the population that's of immigrant origin (though this obviously excludes, for example, the sizable 2nd generation Caribbean population that's under 40).

New York 910,508 35.5%
Miami 379,832 43.8%
Washington 193,877 17.5%
Atlanta 128,903 10.3%
Boston 111,307 43.3%
Philadelphia 82,972 9.1%
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Old 03-19-2015, 09:05 PM
 
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In NYC itself:

Black population 18+ 1,568,693
Foreign born 638,678 (40.7%)
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Old 03-19-2015, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Cambridge, MA/London, UK
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Few more to add:

Hampton Roads:

Puerto Rican: 24,234
Jamaican: 5,676
Dominican: 2,989
Cuban: 2,892
Panamanian: 2,569
Trinidadian: 1,584
Haitian: 1,514
Nigerian: 1,373
Ethiopian: 977

Chicago:

Puerto Rican: 177,218
Cuban: 20,638
Nigerian: 12,083
Jamaican: 11,190
Haitian: 7,044
Dominican: 5,128
Brazilian: 4,917
Belizean: 4,827
Ghanaian: 3,489
Ethiopian: 3,287
Panamanian: 2,303
Congolese: 1,317
Trinidadian: 989

Dallas:

Puerto Rican: 29,361
Nigerian: 14,802
Cuban: 9,527
Ethiopian: 7,099
Kenyan: 4,719
Jamaican: 4,509
Brazilian: 4,365
Dominican: 2,971
Panamanian: 2,731
Sudanese: 1,904
Somalian: 1,847
Ghanaian: 1,534
Trinidadian: 1,055
Belizean: 1,008
Liberian: 885

Los Angeles:

Puerto Rican: 82,121
Cuban: 59,643
Belizean: 17,288
Jamaican: 15,502
Brazilian: 13,000
Nigerian: 12,781
Panamanian: 8,796
Ethiopian: 8,650
Dominican: 4,760
Haitian: 4,043
Trinidadian: 2,097
Ghanaian: 1,616
Kenyan: 1,220
Barbadian: 744

Orlando:

Puerto Rican: 275,594
Cuban: 41,787
Haitian: 38,828
Dominican: 33,634
Jamaican: 31,440
Brazilian: 13,293
Trinidadian: 6,323
Panamanian: 4,089
Bahamian: 1,650
Nigerian: 1,199

Bay Area:

Puerto Rican: 37,978
Cuban: 11,351
Brazilian: 10,001
Ethiopian: 9,878
Nigerian: 5,346
Jamaican: 5,099
Panamanian: 3,012
Dominican: 1,822
Haitian: 1,503
Kenyan: 1,473
Trinidadian: 1,212
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Old 03-19-2015, 11:06 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latino yeah, but I don't know about African American (I know MIA has a decent sized population) and Continental African.
Yeah the Miami metro still has a large black American population. But they don't have a large African population. But I don't think any city besides New York beats Miami on black carribean population.
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Old 03-19-2015, 11:12 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Looking at those stats on this page and the last for various cities, you can basically tell that Black Caribbeans do not come west of the Mississippi that much. They usually stay along the Eastern seaboard.
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Old 03-19-2015, 11:23 PM
 
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And Nigerians appear to be the most dispersed across the country among the major African immigrant groups.
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Old 03-20-2015, 04:49 AM
 
Location: Baltimore
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Boston, Hartford, NYC, Miami, Providence and the rest arent even at all close. End Thread.
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