Jamaican Americans
Jamaican American or Jamerican are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry.
Total population | |
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1,091,482[1]0.3% of the U.S. population (2013) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Majority in New York, Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Smaller numbers in other parts of the country, including North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Texas and California | |
Languages | |
English (American English, Jamaican English), Jamaican Patois | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Protestantism. Some adherents of Catholicism, Islam and other faiths. | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Jamaican British, Jamaican Canadians, Chinese Jamaicans, Jamaicans of African ancestry, Indo-Jamaicans, Jamaican Australians, Afro Americans, Hakka Americans, West Africans |
Jamaican Americans Media
A Jamaican laborer cutting sugar cane in Clewiston, Florida, December 1947.
Pete Rock performing at Rahzel and Friends - Brooklyn Bowl, 2016.
Harry Belafonte in John Murray Anderson's Almanac on Broadway, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954
A plate of Jerk chicken.
Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State
References
- ↑ Results Archived 2020-02-12 at Archive.today American Fact Finder (US Census Bureau)