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East Africans in the United States

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United States
African Americans
Caribbean
Antiguan and Barbudan Bahamian Barbadian Belizeans Garifuna Bermudian Dominican (Dominica) Grenadian Afro-Guyanese Jamaican Kittian and Nevisian St. Lucian Trinidadian Vincentian Afroboricua Virgin Islander Haitian Afrocubano Afrohondureños Afro-panamanianos Dominican (DR) Dutch Caribbean Surinamese
South American
Afro-brasileiros Afrocolombiano Afrovenezolanos
Central Africa
Cameroonian Congolese Equatoguinean Gabonese
East Africa
Eritrean Ethiopian Baltimore D.C. L.A. Kenyan Somali Somali Bantu Mainers Minnesotan South Sudanese Tanzanian Ugandan
North Africa
Algerian Arab Berber Egyptian Coptic Libyan Moroccan Sudanese Tunisian
Southern Africa
Angolan Malawian Namibian South African Afrikaners Zimbabwean
West Africa
Beninese Bissau-Guinean Cape Verdean Gambian Ghanaian Guinean Ivorian Liberian Malian Mauritanian Nigerian Dallas Ibibio San Antonio Senegalese Sierra Leonean Togolese

Slavery and Early Struggles
Transatlantic slave trade Middle Passage Antebellum South Slave rebellions
Reconstruction and Jim Crow
Reconstruction Era Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson Great Migration
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement Montgomery Bus Boycott March on Washington Freedom Rides Birmingham campaign
Post-Civil Rights and Contemporary Issues
Black Power Movement Obama presidency Black Lives Matter Police brutality
Legal
Plessy v. Ferguson Brown v. Board of Education Shelley v. Kraemer Batson v. Kentucky Griggs v. Duke Power Co. Naturalization Act of 1870 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 Immigration Act of 1990

Cultures

Religion
Black Theology Christianity Anglicanism Eastern Catholic Lutheranism Methodism Protestantism Reformed Christianity Roman Catholic Coptic Orthodox Eritrean Catholic Ethiopian Catholic Ethiopian Orthodox Druze Irreligion Agnosticism Atheism Islam American Islam Shia Sunni Judaism African traditional religions Bwiti Chrislam Isese Juju Kimbanguism Odinani P'ent'ay Rastafari West African Vodún
Languages
English American Black African Sea Island creole Haitian creole Nigerian pidgin Arabic Igbo Yoruba Akan Lingala Nuer Meta Dinka Shilluk French Wolof Swahili Amharic Somali Tigrinya Berber Afrikaans Hausa Cape Verdean Crioulo Spanish Portuguese Angolan Brazilian Papiamento

Africana studies

Fields
African American studies Diaspora studies Ethnic studies Black male studies Black psychology
Organizations
NAACP National Urban League Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Texts
The Souls of Black Folk Black Skin, White Masks The Mis-Education of the Negro Ain't I a Woman? Philosophia Africana
Theory
Double Consciousness Critical Race Theory Afrocentrism Black orientalism Black power

The Arts

Literature
African American literature Black feminist literature
Autobiography
The Autobiography of Malcolm X I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Novels
Invisible Man Native Son Their Eyes Were Watching God
Poetry and Short Stories
The Weary Blues Annie Allen
Visual Art
African American art African American cinema
Art Movements & Collectives
Black Arts Movement Hip hop culture
Art Organizations
Studio Museum in Harlem
Cultural Landmarks
Harlem Birmingham Civil Rights District

East Africans in the United States are Americans with ancestry from East Africa. They include:

See also

African immigration to the United States

Sub-Saharan Africa

Central African	Cameroonian Congolese Equatoguinean Gabonese
East African	Kenyan South Sudanese Tanzanian Ugandan
Horners	Eritrean Sudanese Ethiopian Somali
Southern African	Angolan Malawian South African Zimbabwean
West African	Beninese Bissau-Guinean Burkina Faso Cape Verdean Gambian Ghanaian Guinean Ivorian Liberian Malian Mauritanian Nigerian Senegalese Sierra Leonean Togolese

African ethnic groups
in the United States¹

¹ Several African ethnic groups are dispersed throughout different areas of Africa, regardless of countries or regions.

Demographics of Africans in the United States

Demographic history

topics	Admixture in the USA ADOS Antebellum South Black Dutch Cities High yellow Hypodescent One-drop rule Free person of color Neighborhoods Freedmen's Towns New Negro Nomenclature

Socioeconomic status

Religion

topics

Afro-derived	Hoodoo Louisiana Voodoo New Orleans Voodoo Revival Orisha-Voodoo
Abrahamic	Black church Boyd Convention National Baptist Convention AME Azusa Street Revival Catholicism Doctrine of Father Divine Judaism Islam
Hotep	Nation of Islam Five-Percent Nation Black Hebrew Israelites Nuwaubian Nation Moorish Science Temple of America Ausar Auset Society

Immigrant

Ethnic Black Americans

Dominickers Louisiana Mina Redbone
Creoles of color	Alabama Creole people Arkansas Creoles Ark-La-Tex Creoles Cane River Creoles Louisiana Creole people St. Landry Parish Creoles Mississippi

Multiethnic

Black Americans in Israel Merikins Noirs américains Black Nova Scotians Samaná Americans
Africa	Americo-Liberians Black Americans in Ghana Krio Aku Krio Fernandinos Saro

By descent

Lumbee

Immigrant African-Americans

Anglo	Antiguan and Barbudan Bahamian Barbadian Belizeans Garifuna Bermudian Dominican (Dominica) Grenadian Afro-Guyanese Jamaican Kittian and Nevisian St. Lucian Trinidadian Vincentian
American	Afroboricua Virgin Islander
Franco	Haitian
Hispano	Afrocubano Afrohondureños Afro-panamanianos Dominican (DR)
Dutch	Dutch Caribbean Surinamese

Eritrean
Sudanese
Ethiopian
- Baltimore
- D.C.
- L.A.
- Las Vegas
Somali
- Somali Bantu Mainers
- Minnesotan

Southern
Africa

By State/City

Gulf Coast	Alabama Mobile Florida Jacksonville Tallahassee Louisiana Mississippi Texas Austin Dallas–Fort Worth Houston San Antonio
Old South	Georgia Atlanta Maryland Baltimore North Carolina South Carolina Virginia Washington, D.C.
Upland	Arkansas Kentucky Lexington Tennessee West Virginia

Heartland	Illinois Chicago Indiana Iowa Davenport Michigan Detroit Ohio Cleveland
Northeast	Massachusetts Boston New Jersey New York New York City Pennsylvania Philadelphia

California
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
Hawaii
Oregon
Utah

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