Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominant African descent. They represent the largest ethnic group in the country. The ethnogenesis of the Black Jamaican...
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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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of 2023, Jamaicans of African descent represent 92.1% of the population, followed by 6.1% Afro-European or Brown, 0.8% East Indian and Afro-East Indian...
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Rastafari (category Afro-Caribbean religion)
Rastafari 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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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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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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Afro-Grenadian Afro-Guatemalan Afro-Guyanese Afro-Haitians Afro-Hondurans Afro-Jamaican Afro-Kittian and Nevisian Afro-Mexicans Afro-Nicaraguan Afro-Panamanian...
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British African-Caribbean people (redirect from British Afro-Caribbean community)
British Afro-Caribbean people or British Black Caribbean people are a British ethnic group. They are British people whose recent ancestors originate from...
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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-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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Afro-Dutch or Black Dutch are Dutch people who are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Afro-Dutch in the continental Netherlands hail from...
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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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Marcus Garvey (category Colony of Jamaica people)
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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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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Kumina (category Afro-Jamaican culture)
Kumina is an Afro-Jamaican religion. Kumina has practices that include secular ceremonies, dance and music that developed from the beliefs and traditions...
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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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Afro-Panamanians are Panamanians of African descent. The Afro-Panamanian population can be mainly broken into one of two categories "Afro-Colonials",...
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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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The city's population is a mix of mostly Garifuna, Maya, Afro-Caribbean (such as Afro-Jamaicans), and other West Indian groups. Its heyday was in the latter...
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Daggering (category Afro-Jamaican culture)
Daggering is a form of dance originating from Jamaica.[citation needed] The dance incorporates the male dancer ramming his crotch area into the female...
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Obeah (category Afro-Jamaican culture)
mentioned in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor. Many Jamaicans accused women of such poisonings; one case Lewis discussed was that of...
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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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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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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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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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Afro-Mexicans (Spanish: afromexicanos), also known as Black Mexicans (Spanish: mexicanos negros), are Mexicans who have heritage from sub-Saharan Africa...
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Nicole Lyn (category Canadian people of Jamaican descent)
Brampton, Ontario, to Cheryl Gabay, a Jamaican woman of Afro-Jamaican descent, and Peter Lyn, who is Chinese-Jamaican. She grew up in the Toronto area. As...
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Convince (category Afro-Jamaican culture)
Caribbean Religions: Volume 1: A – L; Volume 2: M – Z. ISBN 9780252094330. Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred...
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