Dominicas are black right? And hispanic is a culture not a race? Wondering?

Question

Ohhh cause i always say pictures of dominicans (for culture project) and my history books they are considered black or no different than African Americans. They said that europeans took them from africa and put them on those islands!! Just wanted to get others opinions see if i learn more. Thanks!!!

Ohhh cause i always saw pictures of dominicans (for culture project) and my history books they are considered black or no different than African Americans. They said that europeans took them from africa and put them on those islands!! Just wanted to get others opinions see if i learn more. Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Dominicans are black. Hispanic is a race.

Answer 2

Dominicans, like the rest of the caribbean are of mixed ethnicity. Some are African-dominican and some are spanish-dominican or a combination of both. They had large slave populations like the rest of the caribbean and therefore there was a lot of spanish and africans who mixed and made them biracial. Haiti which is the other half of the island was originally given to freed slaves and that is why haiti is nearly all black and they speak french because it was a french colony. Much of the caribbean is a mixture of african and spanish, in other words creole peoples.

Answer 3

The rerason why Dominicans are dark skinned is that when the Spaniards arrived in the islands, they brought with them Chicken Pox, which killed most of the natives. Since there was no more people to be enslaved, they hauled most of their african subjects to the americas. Then the rest is history.

Formally speaking, "hispanic" is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, its people and culture. now, if you're from the US, Hispanic is one of several terms of ethnicity employed to categorize any person, of any racial background, of any country and of any religion who has at least one ancestor from the people of Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the person has Spanish ancestry.

It is therefore not a racial term, although as used in the United States it often carries racial connotations.

Answer 4

You mean people from Dominica, or people from the Dominican Republic?

Most people from Dominica are black.

Dominicans, people from the Dominican Republic (an island in the Caribbean), are most mixed race, not so black, but from African roots, (like most in the Caribbean). But they also have white people.

Hispanic is a culture, is a race, and is an ethnicity. I'm Hispanic myself, and the word Hispanic means that your roots are from Spain. So Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and most people from South America are Hispanic.

And we have a unique culture (like we are noisy and like to party), but we are a race also.

Color is one thing and race is another.
I'am very fair and latin or hispanic. African Americans are black, but even the mixed ones and the more light skinned are African Americans.

xoxo
Gizeh

Answer 5

Hispanic is considered a race and Latino is considered a culture. In the Dominican republic you have many Afro-Dominicans. They are Latin American people with African ancestry. So they'd be called Afro-Latino. So they're not just considered black . They're a mixture. But you do have black Dominicans, who just have African ancestry.

Answer 6

Racial Identity
Dominican Americans--like many other Hispanics--often shun the rigid racial model prevalent in U.S. society and instead view themselves as racially mixed, neither white nor black, nor other single race. Since 1980, the Census Bureau has asked U.S. residents to classify their race separately from their Hispanic origin, if any. In 1990, 29.2% of Dominican Americans responded that they were white, while 30% considered themselves black. A plurality chose the "other" category--39.8% of the total.[10] The prevalence of the "other race" category probably reflects the large number of people with mixed African, European and Amerindian ancestry, usually grouped under the folk term indio in the Dominican Republic (75% of the Dominican Republic are mixed Spanish, African and Taino). In the United States, they often define their racial identity in ethnic terms--that is, based on their national origin--or in pan-ethnic terms, such as Hispanics or Latinos (the self-titles used by a small percentage of Dominican Americans whom lived or their parents lived in the US before 1960, as the majority of Dominicans with a solely national self-title "(Nuyo)Dominican Yorks" and "Puerto-Dominicans" arrived later). Thus, Dominican Americans contest the country's traditionally narrow view on race by expanding the number of possible racial categories or pressing for the public recognition of racially mixed persons (such as Dominican Americans who are both mulatto and mestizo). At any rate, the current system of racial classification in the United States does not capture well the multiracial Hispanic experience in general, as recent research suggests.[11]

Answer 7

dominicans are technically hispanic with african decent. It all comes from slavery. thats why central america and south america the people there are all mixed. but it just depends on the indiviual who is dominican. some consider themselves black and some considers themselves hispanic but acknowledge their african roots.

Answer 8

Many Dominicans are black,although they deny it. There are also white Dominicans.When Christopher Columbus came over and annihilated the existing Indian tribes,he imported African slaves to replace the Indians he basically worked to death.Throughout the years,the Dominican Republic was governed by Haiti who actually helped the island gain independence from Spain.Hispanic is not a race.According to anthroplogists,there are only 3 races.These being,white,black,and asian. Native-Americans being descendants of Asians. These answers you're getting make me laugh !

Answer 9

OOO! Yo Soy Dominicana! Dominicans can be Black like me or white, or multiracial. Most people in the Carribbean are a combination of all the races, I'm also Jamacian and Creole. I call myself a Black Hispanic or a Black Latina.

Answer 10

Good question but I wouldn't call them Black.
No on is Black. Black is a color. African/ or African-American.

Dominicans is a Catholic religious order.

I would say Latino.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups

Hispanic = its people and culture.
Hispanic is one of several terms of ethnicity employed to categorize any person, of any racial background, of any country and of any religion who has at least one ancestor from the people of Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the person has Spanish ancestry.


Another Question. If I am Irish why am I not called
Irish-American?

Answer 11

I think many Domincans are black, but I have seen some that probably would not ID themselves as black (although they might have some African heritage). Hispanic means "Spanish speaking," so not it cannot be a race. I think Latino is a race though. People can be both Black and Latino, no?