Editing African diaspora (section)

=== Central America and South America ===
{{Main|Afro-Latin Americans}}
[[File:Merengue Dominicano.jpg|alt=A man and woman in colorful dress dancing|thumb|The racial make-up of the [[Dominican Republic]] includes many [[Afro-Caribbean]]s, [[mestizo]]s, [[Taíno]]-descended persons, and whites.]]
[[File:27 anos da Fundação Cultural Palmares.jpg|alt=Women in white dresses in a semi-circle|thumb|[[Afro-Brazilians]] celebrating at a ceremony held by the [[Ministry of Culture (Brazil)|Ministry of Culture]].]]
At an intermediate level, in [[South America]] and in the former plantations in and around the Indian Ocean, descendants of enslaved people are a bit harder to define because many people are mixed in demographic proportion to the original slave population. In places that imported relatively few slaves (like [[Chile]]), few if any are considered "black" today.<ref>Harry Hoetink, ''Caribbean Race Relations: A Study of Two Variants'' (Lon-don, 1971), xii.</ref> In places that imported many enslaved people (like [[Brazil]] or [[Dominican Republic]]), the number is larger, though most identify themselves as being of mixed, rather than strictly African, ancestry.<ref>Clara E. Rodriguez, "Challenging Racial Hegemony: Puerto Ricans in the United States," in ''Race'', ed. [[Steven Gregory]] and [[Roger Sanjek]] (New Brunswick NJ, 1994), 131–45, 137. See also Frederick P. Bowser, "Colonial Spanish America," in ''Neither Slave Nor Free: The Freedmen of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World'', ed. David W. Cohen and Jack P. Greene (Baltimore, 1972), 19–58, 38.</ref> In places like Brazil and the Dominican Republic, blackness is performed in more taboo ways than it is in, say, the United States. The idea behind [[Trey Ellis#Cultural Mulatto|Trey Ellis Cultural Mulatto]] comes into play as there are blurred lines between what is considered as black.

In [[Colombia]], the African slaves were first brought to work in the gold mines of the Department of Antioquia. After this was no longer a profitable business, these slaves slowly moved to the Pacific coast, where they have remained unmixed with the white or Indian population until today. The whole Department of Chocó remains a black area. Mixture with white population happened mainly in the Caribbean coast, which is a [[mestizo]] area until today. There was also a greater mixture in the south-western departments of Cauca and [[Valle del Cauca Department|Valle del Cauca]]. In these mestizo areas the African culture has had a great influence.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wade |first=Peter |date=1995 |title=The Cultural Politics of Blackness in Colombia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/646706 |journal=American Ethnologist |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=341–357 |doi=10.1525/ae.1995.22.2.02a00070 |jstor=646706 |issn=0094-0496}}</ref>