• This profile provides a broad overview of Indian migration flows and major populations worldwide, both in the past and more recently, as well as their remittances and contributions to India. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Studies examine interactions of genomic, molecular, and metabolic factors with social-behavioral and environmental factors, race and ethnicity, ancestry, and lifestyle and their effects on the health of populations experiencing health disparities. (nih.gov)
  • Better research methods so that insights from current studies can be applied across populations (ancestries). (nih.gov)
  • For far from isolated to small populations along the Caribbean, the African presence can be discerned throughout the region, even in places often perceived as entirely devoid of its influence. (oxfordre.com)
  • The Black lineage contains many histories, cultures, and experiences, including Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latino populations. (cancer.org)
  • In ancient times, Indian traders established bases around the Indian and the Pacific oceans, especially in East Africa and Western and Southeast Asia. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • South America has a total land area of 17.84 million square kilometers (6.89 square miles), which makes it fourth in terms of area (behind Asia, Africa and North America) and fifth in terms of population (after Asia, Africa, Europe and North America). (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • When the terms "mimicry" and "hybridity" are invoked in literary criticism, or in classrooms looking at literature from Asia, Africa, or the Caribbean, as well as their respective diasporas, there is usually a footnote somewhere to two essays by Homi K. Bhabha , "Of Mimicry and Man," and "Signs Taken For Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority Under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817. (electrostani.com)
  • Other preferred terms are African diasporic or African descent, to refer, for example, to people who trace their lineage to Africa but migrated through Latin America and the Caribbean. (umass.edu)
  • The percentage of Africans in local society and the time spent in any one place played a role in developing an African (central or south) American culture in Latin America. (aaregistry.org)
  • Many Africans dispersed throughout North America , South America , Europe , and Asia during the Atlantic , Trans-Saharan , and Indian Ocean slave trades. (wikipedia.org)
  • The colonists also transported Africans to the Western Hemisphere , and the Africans in turn influenced American Indians. (britannica.com)
  • Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery and formed their own settlements. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mimicry in colonial and postcolonial literature is most commonly seen when members of a colonized society (say, Indians or Africans) imitate the language, dress, politics, or cultural attitude of their colonizers (say, the British or the French). (electrostani.com)
  • Despite a contemporary collective historical amnesia that imagines Africans isolated in specific regions, namely the Caribbean coast, peoples of African descent can be found throughout the Central American nations. (oxfordre.com)
  • Rather than addressing each country, a thematic approach that focuses on the Spanish Conquest, slavery, emancipation, the ethnogenesis of African connected cultures, the historical erasure of Africans, and the contributions of peoples of African descent helps to understand the complex ways that peoples of African descent have impacted the history of modern Central America. (oxfordre.com)
  • DSN: CC37.HSPHANES.DENTAL ABSTRACT General Information Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Mexican Americans Tape Number 6505 DENTAL HEALTH Version 1 February 1986 Description The Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES) was conducted from July 1982 through December 1984. (cdc.gov)
  • DSN: SEE BLOOD AND URINE DATASET NAMES ABSTRACT General Information HISPANIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY, 1982-84 Mexican Americans Cuban Americans Puerto Ricans Description The Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES) was conducted from July 1982 through December 1984. (cdc.gov)
  • When for Puerto Rican children, 12.8% for Central or South American children, and 8.3% compared with other children, Hispanic/ for Cuban children. (cdc.gov)
  • The U.S. Hispanic/Latino to supplemental questions that vary (comprising Cubans and Cuban population consists of individuals annually in response to current needs for Americans), Central or South originally from various countries in data. (cdc.gov)
  • Latin American, other Spanish, or other variation among subgroups in terms of status, and utilization of health care unknown type of Hispanic/Latino/ cultural background, socioeconomic services (10,11). (cdc.gov)
  • Part of the reason we have the "Hispanic" ethnicity question is because Mexican Americans fought for it. (thesocietypages.org)
  • Nonetheless, the African character of the African American culture is less pronounced than in societies where Blacks were the majority of the people. (aaregistry.org)
  • for blacks in Central and Latin America, life was no different. (aaregistry.org)
  • If anybody had told us that millions of blacks and Latins were being stopped and frisked in New York, we would have done something about it. (blogspot.com)
  • It's not like we wanted to make the point to blacks and Latins about who is in charge in New York and if they don't like it, well, there are Greyhound buses leaving from the Port Authority terminal every few minutes. (blogspot.com)
  • and 70,000 blacks, who live along the Caribbean. (studyboss.com)
  • American history books are filled with sad stories of oppression designed to make students cry for the trials and tribulations of blacks, Indians, Mexicans, Asians, etc. (melungeon.org)
  • When individual blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Asian Americans or American Indians are attacked because of their ancestry, we often see their organizations rise up in outrage and proclaim to the media and nation that an injury to one of them is an injury to all. (melungeon.org)
  • Over the centuries, black people have added their original contributions to the cultural mix of their respective societies, thus exerting a deep influence on all facets of indigenous life in Latin America. (aaregistry.org)
  • Some of the most important literature on indigenous music history has been provided by writers who were themselves American Indians. (britannica.com)
  • Europeans and Native Americans in Central Mexico, the Andes, and some other parts of Latin America began to intermarry soon after contact, combining elements of Iberian and indigenous lifeways to develop new mestizo cultures. (britannica.com)
  • The majority of the population is ethnically mestizo or mixed Spanish, Indigenous, Chinese, and West Indian. (conservapedia.com)
  • Indigenous Heritage: South America is celebrated for its diverse indigenous cultures. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • The Quechua people of the Andes and the Guarani people of Paraguay are among the notable indigenous groups in South America. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • The Khasi people are an indigenous tribe, who live in the state of Meghalaya, which is in the north-eastern part of India. (shoutsmusic.blog)
  • Through the 15th and 16th centuries, slavery moved up South America's coast through the Caribbean . (aaregistry.org)
  • U.S. commentators most often point to the concept of mestizaje as an example of Latin America's seamless racial integration. (nacla.org)
  • Some might dismiss Chávez's comment as a linguistic misfire attributable to Latin America's unique racial lexicon. (nacla.org)
  • She's a 2002 Grammy Award winner and one of Latin America's musical treasures. (blogspot.com)
  • Brazil Dominates: Brazil, the largest country in South America, is not only the largest country on the continent but also the most populous, accounting for over 50% of South America's total population. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • Americans, and other Hispanics. (cdc.gov)
  • They are NOT told about the partial African ancestry in Hispanics and Arabs. (melungeon.org)
  • They claim instead that DNA reveals "ancestry composition" and "ethnicity. (countercurrents.org)
  • But there is a sinister undertone to it all, reviving as it does a long-discredited pseudoscientific basis for racism: the notion that race, ethnicity, and ancestry are revealed in the genes and the blood, and passed down inexorably, even if invisibly, from generation to generation. (countercurrents.org)
  • And whether or not Arab American should be considered a unique race or an ethnicity was also discussed for that year. (thesocietypages.org)
  • Socially defined ancestry (i.e. race and ethnicity) affects health via individuals' social environment and their lived experiences, including socioeconomic deprivation, access to health care or lack thereof, and other structural inequities. (nih.gov)
  • Genetically inferred ancestry, as opposed to the social constructs of race and ethnicity, is a characteristic of the genome. (nih.gov)
  • Genetic ancestry affords several advantages for health disparities research: it can be inferred objectively and with precision, independently of the social dimensions of race and ethnicity, at different levels of evolutionary relatedness (continental and subcontinental), and at different levels of resolution (genome-wide or haplotype-specific) as a continuous variable. (nih.gov)
  • i give the same answer when asked what am I...and it is true that America seems to be far fixated on race and ethnicity to see any thing else. (afroromance.com)
  • in some cases, as in the Caribbean, entire cultures became extinct. (britannica.com)
  • With its rich history, diverse cultures, and breathtaking landscapes, South America captivates the imagination of millions worldwide. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • Because of different cultures throughout Latin America, there are various music forms throughout Latin American countries, with different sounds and origins. (svendgram.com)
  • The lab is collaborating with colleagues from Colombia to develop CÓDIGO, Consorcio para la Diversidad Genómica, Ancestría y Salud en Colombia to address these pressing needs. (nih.gov)
  • The local aims are to support research on genomics, bioinformatics, and precision medicine in Colombia, building bridges between Colombia, Latin America, and the United States. (nih.gov)
  • Such attacks have focused on tribal sovereignty, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), and the voting rights of Native Americans, and they have come from Washington, the courts, and a state legislature. (thenation.com)
  • If Native Americans are reduced to little more than another genetic variation, there is no need for laws that acknowledge their land rights, treaty rights, and sovereignty. (thenation.com)
  • From the 1500s through the 1700s, Native Americans borrowed and adapted many European musical instruments and genres through creative processes of musical interaction. (britannica.com)
  • Contact with European musics has had a lasting impact on Native Americans. (britannica.com)
  • Native Hawaiians had been agitating to be considered Native Americans in order to get access to the rights and resources that the US government has promised Native Americans on the mainland. (thesocietypages.org)
  • The term "Indian diaspora" refers to all persons of Indian descent living outside India, as long as they preserve some major Indian ethnocultural characteristics. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Ancestry refers to the geographic origins of a person's ancestors, and ancestry impacts health (disparities) in different ways. (nih.gov)
  • The "genomics research gap" refers to the current bias in genomic studies, whereby the majority of study participants have European ancestry. (nih.gov)
  • The US once included "South American" as a category in the "origin of descent" question. (thesocietypages.org)
  • I remember when Vanessa Williams became the first woman of African American descent to be crowned Miss America, most Black folks said she did not represent them. (afroromance.com)
  • Black or African American are commonly the preferred terms for most individuals of African descent today. (umass.edu)
  • Most Americans have probably been taught some form of what sociologists call hypodescent - the idea that the offspring of so-called "interracial" unions inevitably increase the population of the nonwhite ancestral group or, if there is more than one nonwhite ancestral group, the population with the lowest social status. (melungeon.org)
  • The approach is to use genetic ancestry inference, together with population biobank data and causal inference, to decompose the genetic and socioenvironmental contributions to health disparities that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minority groups in cosmopolitan countries of the global north. (nih.gov)
  • A major aim of this lab is to use genetic ancestry inference, together with population biobank data, to decompose the genetic and socioenvironmental contributions to health disparities. (nih.gov)
  • South America, the fourth largest continent in the world both in area and population, stands as a unique and vibrant region. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • In terms of population, South America is indeed the fourth most populous continent globally. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • As of the latest available data, the estimated population of South America is approximately 430 million people. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • The YouTube video titled "South America Population (1800-2300) South American Countries-Population Ranking-Bar Chart Race" includes a section where there is no spoken transcript but only background music playing. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • The current population of South America is 439,967,746 as of Sunday, , based on the latest United Nations estimates. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • South America population is equivalent to 5.47% of the total world population. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • South America ranks number 1 in Latin America and the Caribbean among subregions ranked by Population. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • With over 200 million people, Brazil makes up almost half the population of South America. (haciasantiagojmfanjul.com)
  • What is the Percentage of Mexican American Indian Population in the State of Maine? (zipatlas.com)
  • What is the Percentage of Mexican American Indian Population in the United States? (zipatlas.com)
  • Most interesting, and perhaps troubling, is the way Latin America is being used by observers to symbolize what a "post-racial" future will look like for the United States. (nacla.org)
  • One of the things that British observers beheld was the fact that Latin America had become essentially a mixed race civilization. (umich.edu)
  • In the process, the corporate-promoted ancestry fad conveniently manages to erase the histories of conquest, colonization, and exploitation that created not just racial inequality but race itself as a crucial category in the modern world. (thenation.com)
  • One of the many "hidden histories" of the United States has been the story of the massive government effort to deny the existence of mixed-race people and, especially, the multiracial ancestry within the so-called "white race" (or more appropriately, white caste). (melungeon.org)
  • o Analyses should not be conducted on data combined from the three portions of the survey (Mexican-American, Cuban-American, Puerto Rican). (cdc.gov)
  • Let's start by looking at how the ancestry industry contributes to, and profits from, a 21st-century reformulation of race. (thenation.com)
  • Race is a less important issue here than it is the United States, but many dark-skinned Latin Americans are quietly cheering for Obama. (nacla.org)
  • Mestizaje is cited as a prime example of how Latin Americans have been able to move beyond race. (nacla.org)
  • Although Chávez was clearly expressing excitement-even solidarity-over the prospect of an African-American holding the highest position in U.S. government, the fact that Obama remained basically nameless and was only referred to by his race throughout the press conference is a telling example of the seemingly innocuous discriminatory practices and racism that permeate everyday life in Latin America. (nacla.org)
  • Chávez's statements were so shocking to many people precisely because he was so open about referring to Obama only in terms of his race in an international and public setting, disrupting the idea of Latin America as a kind of "post-racial" utopia. (nacla.org)
  • Against an historic backdrop of 250 years of slavery, 100 years of legalized segregation, and more than 30 years of freedom under the law for all Americans, scientists have attempted to research issues related to race in the context of definitions that have come out of the history of slavery. (nih.gov)
  • For at least a century, American medical and public health researchers have used race as a marker for biology and have documented race-associated differences in health and in disease prevention. (nih.gov)
  • There was the Association of Multi-Ethnic Americans (AMEA) and Project RACE ("Reclassify All Children Equally"), which targeted school districts and state and federal statistics gathers who insisted on forcing multiracial children into monoracial official categories. (melungeon.org)
  • They have gone far beyond the mandates of other mixed-race activist groups to critique the American culture as a whole, examine and encourage historical research, and reach out to others who suffered under laws of forced hypodescent. (melungeon.org)
  • Her research and teaching cover race and gender, civil rights, Afro-American history, international relations and race and foreign affairs. (umich.edu)
  • How did ideas of race and colonial acquisition inform US international behavior, particularly in the 19th century, such as the Mexican-American War, the Walker expeditions, and efforts to annex the Dominican Republic? (umich.edu)
  • She's widely published in leading journals and edited collections, and her several books include the book, "In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization" from Cambridge University Press in 2012. (umich.edu)
  • African Americans. (nih.gov)
  • Starting in the late 18th century, African peoples from the Caribbean-whether forcefully exiled or as a result of searching for economic opportunities-traveled to Central America. (oxfordre.com)
  • A person with origins in any of the First Peoples in North, Central, and South America who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment. (cancer.org)
  • The everyday practices and lived experiences of many Latin Americans, however, paint a different picture. (nacla.org)
  • Writing for NACLA , Marisol de la Cadena notes, "One of the most puzzling, disconcerting phenomena that the non-native visitor confronts while traveling in Latin America is the relative ease with which pervasive and very visible discriminatory practices coexist with the denial of racism. (nacla.org)
  • Companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe lure customers into donating their DNA and a hefty sum of money in exchange for detailed reports claiming to reveal the exact geographical origins of their ancestors going back multiple generations. (thenation.com)
  • Alternatively, the Cuban philologist José Juan Arrom has traced the origins of the word maroon further than the Spanish cimarrón , used first in Hispaniola to refer to feral cattle, then to Indian slaves who escaped to the hills, and by the early 1530s to African slaves who did the same. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the 19th century, ethnic Indians have established communities on every continent as well as on islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific and Indian oceans. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • However, those flows were not the basis for Indian migration in the 19th century or the global dispersion seen today. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Today, their descendants form significant ethnic minorities in several Latin American countries and are the dominant element in many Caribbean nations. (aaregistry.org)
  • In addition, ethnic Indians in countries like Kenya and Suriname have migrated to other countries, a movement called secondary migration. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Although mestizaje has different historical roots and trajectories within different Latin American countries, there has been a rhetorical emphasis across the board on a kind harmonious racial exceptionalism at work in Latin America. (nacla.org)
  • The American Spanish word cimarrón is also often given as the source of the English word maroon , used to describe the runaway slave communities in Florida, in the Great Dismal Swamp on the border of Virginia and North Carolina, on colonial islands of the Caribbean, and in other parts of the New World . (wikipedia.org)
  • Their descendants of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry are called mestizos. (studyboss.com)
  • Meanwhile, in an apparently unrelated event, Senator Elizabeth Warren, egged on by Donald Trump's "Pocahontas" taunts and his mocking of her claims to native ancestry, triumphantly touted her DNA results to "prove" her Native American heritage. (thenation.com)
  • But it will at least prove that America has finally become a fundamentally post-racial society-a place where tribal loyalties are based on ideology, not skin color. (nacla.org)
  • The history of African people in South and Central America and Mexico is briefly written in this article. (aaregistry.org)
  • In the plantation societies of the Caribbean islands, people of African ancestry held substantial control over their daily lives, despite the efforts of the politically dominant minority group to restrain and oppress them. (aaregistry.org)
  • Caribbean people speak variants of the standard European languages, which always reflect West African speech patterns regardless of whether the spoken language is English, Spanish, French, or Dutch. (aaregistry.org)
  • He proposes that the American Spanish word derives ultimately from the Arawakan root word simarabo , construed as 'fugitive', in the Arawakan language spoken by the Taíno people native to the island. (wikipedia.org)
  • Students are often told, at some point, that there is a "one drop rule" in the United States forcing an unwanted and involuntary blackness on even the whitest people with that tainted ancestry. (melungeon.org)
  • Considering those people who talk about identifying as "Confederate American" on the census. (thesocietypages.org)
  • The statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 289,550,398 people shows a substantial positive correlation between the proportion of Central American Indians and poverty level among single females in the United States with a correlation coefficient ( R ) of 0.538 and weighted average of 25.9% . (zipatlas.com)
  • This includes North America contrary to what some people believe. (machpelahcave.website)
  • Some Black people do not identify as African American. (cancer.org)
  • This is precisely the logic behind recent rulings that have denied Mashpee tribal land rights in Massachusetts, dismantled the ICWA (a law aimed at preventing the removal of Native American children from their families or communities), and attempted to suppress Native voting rights in North Dakota. (thenation.com)
  • Soon after contact, Europeans began teaching American Indians to read, perform, and compose European music and to build European instruments. (britannica.com)
  • American Journal of Epidemiology 1995;142(3):269-87. (nih.gov)
  • Get more out of American Cancer Society studies on epidemiology, statistics, genetics, and other complex topics with this glossary of terms used in cancer research, explained in plain language for nonscientists. (cancer.org)
  • At their most benign, these reports have become the equivalent of a contemporary parlor game, especially for white Americans who make up the vast majority of the participants. (countercurrents.org)
  • The composition of flows has evolved over time from mainly indentured labor in far-flung colonies to postwar labor for British industry to high-skilled professionals in North America and low-skilled workers in the Middle East. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • But Latin America shows how claims of an emerging "racial democracy" easily coexist with mass discrimination and racism. (nacla.org)
  • To meet this demand, the British established an organized system of temporary labor migration from the Indian subcontinent. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • At the beginning of the 8th century, Arabs took African slaves from the central and eastern portions of the African continent (where they were known as the Zanj ) and sold them into markets in the Middle East , the Indian subcontinent , and the Far East . (wikipedia.org)
  • A common distinction with regard to ethnic Indians outside India, often referred to as overseas Indians, is made between non-resident Indians (NRIs), who hold Indian citizenship, and persons of Indian origin (PIOs), who do not. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • asks Ancestry.com, typically enough. (countercurrents.org)
  • I'm biracial(Trinidadian/Irish)and I hate neitherside,I don't struggle with Identity,and when someone asks me what am I,I simply say Human American(LoL! (afroromance.com)
  • Indian folk metal band Dymbur have released a new song with which they intend to raise awareness about child abuse and child labor in their native India. (shoutsmusic.blog)
  • However, current methods for genetic ancestry inference are slow and do not scale to biobank size datasets. (nih.gov)
  • The lab is currently developing fast and efficient genetic ancestry inference methods that scale to biobank size datasets to address this challenge. (nih.gov)
  • From right here and right now we who are Indian, Black, Caribbean and South American are sending positive energy to el hombre negro . (nacla.org)
  • Welty TK, Zephier N, Schweigman K, Blake B, Leonardson G. Cancer risk factors in three Sioux tribes: use of the Indian-Specific Health Risk Approval for data collection and analysis. (nih.gov)
  • Panamanians' culture, customs, and language are predominantly Caribbean Spanish. (conservapedia.com)
  • cimarrón , Spain (or Spanish America) probably gave the word directly to England (or English America). (wikipedia.org)
  • 27.6% of Oakland, CA residents are foreign-born (11.7% born in Latin America, 10.7% born in Asia), which is 4.1% greater than the foreign-born rate of 26.5% across the entire state of California. (city-data.com)
  • The country is bordered by Nicaragua on the north, and Panama to the east. (studyboss.com)
  • The cordilleras divide the country into three land regions - the Central Highlands, the Caribbean Lowlands, and the Pacific Coastal Strip. (studyboss.com)
  • What they share is a single conceptual framework: the idea that the long history that has shaped US-Native American relations has no relevance to today's realities. (thenation.com)
  • The early history of American Indian musics may be gleaned from native methods of recounting history, traditional narratives, archaeology, iconography, and linguistics. (britannica.com)
  • 0:01:54.8 Plummer: Our guest is the noted historian, Brenda Gayle Plummer, a professor of history and professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (umich.edu)
  • She's won book prizes in Afro-American history and diplomatic history, and we're just delighted and honored to welcome Professor Plummer to the Ford School for this kick-off event. (umich.edu)
  • And to get us started, I wanna go back to the early years of American history. (umich.edu)
  • BACKGROUND The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on the health status of Americans. (cdc.gov)
  • A detailed description of the data codes dealing with national origin or ancestry appears in the NOTES section of this document. (cdc.gov)
  • Scientific and Technical Information Branch National Center for Health Statistics Center Building, Room 1-57 3700 East-West Highway Hyattsville, MD 20782 301-436-8500 BACKGROUND The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on the health status of Americans. (cdc.gov)
  • On average, for every 1% (one percent) increase in Central American Indians within a typical geography, there is an increase of 1.3% in poverty level among single females. (zipatlas.com)
  • It is essential to understand that the correlation between the percentage of Central American Indians and poverty level among single females does not imply a direct cause-and-effect relationship . (zipatlas.com)
  • It remains uncertain whether the presence of Central American Indians influences an upward or downward trend in the level of poverty level among single females within an area, or if Central American Indians simply ended up residing in those areas with higher or lower levels of poverty level among single females due to other factors . (zipatlas.com)