ABSTRACT
A frican Americans are 13.4% of the U.S. population at 40.2 million persons, which makes them the second largest ethnic minority group in the U.S. following Latino/a Americans (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2007). Ninety-three percent of African Americans’ ancestors
were brought here from Africa as slaves (Spickard, 2007). A minority of African Americans are recent immigrants, most of whom are persons of African ancestry who have immigrated to the United States from Latin America.
