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1、AfricanAmericanFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumpto:navigation,searchThisarticleisabouttheU.S.populationofAmericansofAfricanancestry.ForthepopulationofrecentAfricanorigins,seeAfricanimmigrationtotheUnitedStates.FortheAfricandiasporathroughouttheAmericas,seeAfro-Americanpeoplesofth
2、eAmericas.AfricanAmericanFrederickDouglass ·BarackObama ·RosaParksCondoleezzaRice ·M.L.King,Jr. ·BeyoncéKnowlesMalcolmX ·OprahWinfrey ·BookerT.WashingtonMichaelJordan ·HarrietTubman ·MuhammadAliTotalpopulationAfricanAmerican37,000,000[1](~12%oftheUSpopulation)Non-HispanicBlack36,701,
3、103[1]BlackHispanic884,947[1]RegionswithsignificantpopulationsThroughouttheSouthernUnitedStates,partsoftheNortheast,theMidwest,andCaliforniaLanguagesAmericanEnglish ·AfricanAmericanVernacularEnglish ·recentimmigrantsanditschildrenspeakCaribbeanEnglish ·Spanish ·French ·BrazilianPortu
4、guese ·HaitianCreole ·AfricanlanguagesReligionMajority:ProtestantismMinority:Catholicism ·Islam ·JudaismRelatedethnicgroupsOtherAfro-AmericanpeoplesoftheAmericas(especiallyAnglophones)Americo-Liberian ·SierraLeoneCreolepeopleBlackBritish ·AfricanAmericansinFranceview·talk·editAfrican
5、Americans(alsoreferredtoasBlackAmericansorAfro-Americans,andformerlyasAmericanNegroes)arecitizensorresidentsoftheUnitedStateswhohaveoriginsinanyoftheblackpopulationsofAfrica.[2]IntheUnitedStates,thetermsaregenerallyusedforAmericanswithatleastpartialSub-SaharanAfricanancestry.MostAfri
6、canAmericansarethedirectdescendantsofcaptiveAfricanswhosurvivedtheslaveryerawithintheboundariesofthepresentUnitedStates,althoughsomeare—oraredescendedfrom—immigrantsfromAfrican,Caribbean,CentralAmericanorSouthAmericannations.[3]Asanadjective,thetermisusuallywrittenasAfrican-American.
7、[4]African-Americanhistorystartsinthe17thcenturywithindenturedservitudeinBritishAmericaandprogressesontotheelectionofBarackObamaasthe44thandcurrentPresidentoftheUnitedStates.Betweenthoselandmarkstherewereothereventsandissues,bothresolvedandongoing,thatwerefacedbyAfricanAmericans.Some
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