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African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.
* 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.
African American Vernacular English | AAVE-influenced non-rhotic pronunciations may be African American Vernacular English | found among African Americans throughout the country.
African Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States.
Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.
* African Americans in the 1960s
* Military history of African Americans
* African Americans in France
* Index of articles related to African Americans
* Lists of African Americans
A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.
The cuisine of the American South has been influenced by the many diverse inhabitants of the region, including Americans of European descent, Native Americans and African Americans.
Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.
The earliest reports of this style of a cappella music involved African Americans.
* Antipsychotics, particularly atypicals, appear to cause diabetes mellitus and fatal diabetic ketoacidosis, especially ( in US studies ) in African Americans.
African Americans and Native Americans with this allele have a reduced risk of developing alcoholism.
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The Africa Alphabet ( also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet ) was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann.
" She has also rejected an immigrant designation for African-Americans and instead prefers the term " black " or " white " to denote the African and European U. S. founding populations.
From the 1960s, pieds-noirs ( French citizens living in the north African colonies ), immigrants chiefly from the Maghreb, and continental French people also contributed to the increase.
Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards ; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.
* Pondo stitch, also known as African circle stitch
Benin is also a member of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ).
On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.
Aid sent by the UN and the US to Central African nations also contained some StarLink corn.
But, particularly in the United States and Canada, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being " African-American ".
Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black president, because of his warm relations with African Americans, his poor upbringing and also because he is a jazz musician.
Cameroon also faces a complaint filed with the African Commission on Human Rights by the Southern Cameroons National Council ( SCNC ) and the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation ( SCAPO ) against the Government of the Republic of Cameroon, in which the complainants allege that the Republic of Cameroon is illegally occupying the territory of Southern Cameroons.
Cape Verde also is eligible for trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ), and has signed an Open Skies agreement to facilitate air travel safety and expansion.
The assembly in CAR was led by Barthélemy Boganda, a Catholic priest who also was known for his forthright statements in the French Assembly on the need for African emancipation.
* Soldiers of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), White helmets, also under the UN.
This is a feature of African American Vernacular English but is also used by a variety of English speakers in informal contexts.
Having gained independence, African and Asian countries also established central banks or monetary unions.
The word " Reserve " is also often included, such as the Reserve Bank of India, Reserve Bank of Australia, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the South African Reserve Bank, and U. S. Federal Reserve System.
Spanish also transported African slaves and forcedly migrated many indigenous tribes throughout Colombia.
The biggest of the quilombos, the Quilombo dos Palmares, consisted of many villages mostly of African slaves though they also consisted of other ethnicities and lasted for more than a century, resisting, often outnumbered, many colonial attacks.
Comoros also is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, the European Development Fund, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Indian Ocean Commission, and the African Development Bank.
Comoros was also a member of the OAU, the EDF, the World Bank, the IMF, the IOC, and the African Development Bank.
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Popular songs whose style bore characteristics of both hillbilly and African American music were referred to, in the late 1940s and early 1950s as hillbilly boogie, and in the mid-1950s as rockabilly.
Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance.
Such " Cordovan leathers " were a north African style that was introduced to Spain in the ninth century ( hence it is sometimes referred to as ' Spanish leather '); in Spain such embossed leather hangings were known as guadamecí or guadamecil, from the Libyan town of Ghadames, while cordobanes signified soft goat leather.
Since these sites could not be classified as Mesopotamian, North African, or Arabian, they came to be referred to as " Levantine.
As critics have established, the term ' Moor ' referred to dark-skinned people in general, used interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as ' African ', ' Ethiopian ', ' Negro ', and even ' Indian ' to designate a figure from Africa ( or beyond ).
The IFC African, Latin American, and Caribbean Fund ( referred to as the IFC ALAC Fund ) was created in 2010 and is worth $ 1 billion.
The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog (" Second War of Liberation " or lit.
The survivors took refuge on the Sicilian coast and founded a new town which they called Lilybaion (" Lilybaeum " in latin ), " The town which looks at Lybia "( at the time the whole African coast was referred to as Lybia ).
George was appalled, however, when instructed by the South African government to shake hands only with whites, and referred to his South African bodyguards as " the Gestapo ".
Honecker mentioned the continually increasing numbers of young people from African, Asian, and Latin American countries who received their higher education in East Germany, and he referred to many thousands of people in those countries who had been trained as apprentices, skilled workers, and instructors by teams from East Germany.
They were referred to as " mullatos ," generally meaning mixed African Europeans.
What later became South Africa was not, during the late nineteenth century, one single, united nation ; rather, the territory had four distinct entities: the two British colonies of Cape Colony and Natal ; and the two Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, more commonly referred to as the Transvaal.
Later, Afrikaans was sometimes also referred to as " African Dutch " or " Kitchen Dutch ", although these terms were mainly pejorative.
* African American Vernacular English, sometimes referred to as " Jive "
The geometric patterns, such as modern North African zellige work, made of small tiles each of a single colour but different and regular shapes, are often referred to as " mosaic ", which is not strictly correct.
Often this is referred to as a " Neger " – a pejorative German term for a person of African descent.
A unanimous Court struck down St. Paul, Minnesota's Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance, and in doing so overturned the conviction of a teenager, referred to in court documents only as R. A. V., for burning a cross on the lawn of an African American family.
The political treaty referred in general terms to a federal union between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and bound each of them to help the other, whenever the independence of either should be assailed or threatened from without, unless the state so called upon for assistance should be able to show the injustice of the cause of quarrel in which the other state had engaged.
The African Sacred Ibis was an object of religious veneration in ancient Egypt, particularly associated with the deity Djehuty or otherwise commonly referred to in Greek as Thoth.
Although it is sometimes used to describe individuals of mixed European and African descent, it originally referred to anyone with mixed ethnicities ; in fact, in the United States, " mulatto " was also used as a term for those who were African American and Native American ancestry during the early census years.
The Africa Cup of Nations, also referred to as the African Cup of Nations or African Nations Cup, officially CAN ( French for Coupe d ' Afrique des Nations ), is the main international association football competition in Africa.
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