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  2. African-American culture - Wikipedia

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    Another major aspect of the African-American Arts Movement was the infusion of the African aesthetic, a return to a collective cultural sensibility and ethnic pride that was much in evidence during the Harlem Renaissance and in the celebration of Négritude among the artistic and literary circles in the US, Caribbean, and the African continent ...

  3. Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Some other race. 8.4%. Asian. 6.0%. Native American or Alaska Native. 2.9%. Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. 0.2%. The first United States census in 1790 classed residents as free White people (divided by age and sex), all other free persons (reported by sex and color), and enslaved people.

  4. Black people - Wikipedia

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    Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned ...

  5. Among Us - Wikipedia

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    Among Us is an online multiplayer social deduction game developed by an American indie game studio, Innersloth. Among Us is a space-themed game in which a crew of astronauts must complete tasks while trying to figure out who among them is an imposter, who is sabotaging their work and killing the other players.

  6. Black nationalism - Wikipedia

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    Concepts. Black nationalism reflects the idea that, in racialized societies, people of diverse African descent are often treated as a single racial, ethnic and cultural group (such as African Americans in the US or Black Britons in the UK). [ 11][ 12] Because of a shared history of oppression and a distinct culture shaped by that history, black ...

  7. African diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [ 47] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans. [ 48][ 49] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central ...

  8. African Americans - Wikipedia

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    African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. [ 3 ][ 4 ] African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. [ 5 ]

  9. Racism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Racism has been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices, and actions (including violence) against "racial" or ethnic groups, throughout the history of the United States. Since the early colonial era, White Americans have generally enjoyed legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights, which have been denied to members of various ...