Afro-Germans
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'''Afro-Germans''' ({{langx|de|'''Afrodeutsche'''}}) or '''Black Germans''' ({{langx|de|'''schwarze Deutsche'''}}) are German citizens who have ancestry from any of the [[Black people|Black]] racial groups of [[Africa]]. |
'''Afro-Germans''' ({{langx|de|'''Afrodeutsche'''}}) or '''Black Germans''' ({{langx|de|'''schwarze Deutsche'''}}) are German citizens who have ancestry from any of the [[Black people|Black]] racial groups of [[Africa]]. |
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Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following [[World War II]] and more recent [[immigration]], have substantial Afro-German communities. With modern trade and migration, communities such as Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Cologne have an increasing number of Afro-Germans. The German census does not use race as a category.{{cite book|last=Mazon|first=Patricia|title=Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890–2000|year=2005|publisher=University of Rochester Press|location=Rochester|isbn=1-58046-183-2|pages=3|url= https://afrozensus.de/reports/2020/}} The number of persons "having an extended migrant background" (''mit Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn'', meaning having at least one grandparent born outside Germany), is reported as over 1,000,000.{{Cite web|url= https://afrozensus.de/reports/2020/ |title=Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach Geburtsstaat in Staatengruppen|website=Statistisches Bundesamt}} The ''Initiative Schwarzer Deutscher'' ("Black German Initiative") estimates the total of Germans with African ancestry to be over 1,000,000 persons (of these 500,000 are |
Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following [[World War II]] and more recent [[immigration]], have substantial Afro-German communities. With modern trade and migration, communities such as Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Cologne have an increasing number of Afro-Germans. The German census does not use race as a category.{{cite book|last=Mazon|first=Patricia|title=Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890–2000|year=2005|publisher=University of Rochester Press|location=Rochester|isbn=1-58046-183-2|pages=3|url= https://afrozensus.de/reports/2020/}} The number of persons "having an extended migrant background" (''mit Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn'', meaning having at least one grandparent born outside Germany), is reported as over 1,000,000.{{Cite web|url= https://afrozensus.de/reports/2020/ |title=Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach Geburtsstaat in Staatengruppen|website=Statistisches Bundesamt}} The ''Initiative Schwarzer Deutscher'' ("Black German Initiative") estimates the total of Germans with African ancestry to be over 1,000,000 persons (of these 500,000 are Black Sub-Saharan Africans). |
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