African Diaspora

EENI- School of International Business

Subject Description: African Diaspora in the Americas

1. Afro-Americans: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Ángela Davis, Stokley Carmichael, León Damas, Toni Morrison (Prize Nobel), Garrett A. Morgan (street lighting), Patricia Bath (eye surgery), Charles Drew, Toussaint Louverture
2. The black pride. Marcus Garvey, Aimé Césaire
3. Contributions to the society of the African Diaspora: music (jazz, blues), language, sciences, religion

Sample of the subject: The African Diaspora in the Americas (Slave Trade)

Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the United States.

Estimation of the African Diaspora in the Americas in millions of people/% of the population (Blacks and mulattos).

1. The United States (42/13.6%), Canada (0.8/2.7%), and Mexico (0.1/0.1%)
2. Central America: Costa Rica (0.1/3%), El Salvador, Guatemala (0.01/0.1%), Honduras (0.1/2%), Nicaragua (0.5/9%), Belize (0.09/31%), and Panama (0.4/14%)
3. The Andean region: Bolivia (0.05/ 0.5%), Colombia (9/21%), Ecuador (1.1/7.2%), Peru (0.5/2%), Venezuela (0.8/2,8%), Suriname (0.4/37%), and French Guyana (0.1/66%)
4. South America: Argentina (0.05/ 0,1%), Brazil (15,5/28%), Paraguay (0.2/3.5%), and Uruguay (0.1/4%)
5. The Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda (0.07/95%), the Bahamas (0.3/85%), Bermuda (0.06/61%), the Barbados (0.2/90%), Dominica (0.07/95%), Granada (0.1/91%), Guiana (0.3/36%), Jamaica (2,6/97%), Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis (0.03 /98 %), Saint Lucia (0.2/82%), San Vicente and the Grenadines (0.1%/85%), Trinidad and Tobago (0.4/36 %), Haiti (10,2/95%), Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands (0.2/90%), the British Virgin Islands (0.02/83%), the Dominican Republic (8,7/84%), Cuba (1/9%), and the Cayman Islands (0.04 /60%)

African Civilisation.

More information: Africa under colonial domination, 1880-1935 of the General History of Africa of the UNESCO