Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Afro-Dominican is a subjective term which can be defined as a Dominican of total African descent or a Dominican of partial African descent, but it is usually a Dominican who is of pure or predominant African ancestry, which is represented by 11% of the Dominican population. Since the Dominican Republic is a very ethnically and racially diverse nation and the majority of the Dominican population is made up of mixed race persons, those who are mixed with African ancestry (73% of the population) would usually not be identified as being an Afro-Latino in the Dominican Republic and in many other Latin American nations. Most Afro-Dominicans descend from West and Central Africans who arrived from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century as a result of slavery, while others descend from immigrants who came from the Lesser Antilles during the 20th century.Currently there are also many black immigrants, particularly Haitians, who can be included within the Afro-Dominican demographics if they were born in the country or have Dominican naturalization. Afro-Dominicans of predominant African descent make up a significant minority of the country's population, with Dominicans of mixed or partial African ancestry making up the vast majority of the population.. }
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- Afro-Dominican_(Dominican_Republic) abstract "Afro-Dominican is a subjective term which can be defined as a Dominican of total African descent or a Dominican of partial African descent, but it is usually a Dominican who is of pure or predominant African ancestry, which is represented by 11% of the Dominican population. Since the Dominican Republic is a very ethnically and racially diverse nation and the majority of the Dominican population is made up of mixed race persons, those who are mixed with African ancestry (73% of the population) would usually not be identified as being an Afro-Latino in the Dominican Republic and in many other Latin American nations. Most Afro-Dominicans descend from West and Central Africans who arrived from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century as a result of slavery, while others descend from immigrants who came from the Lesser Antilles during the 20th century.Currently there are also many black immigrants, particularly Haitians, who can be included within the Afro-Dominican demographics if they were born in the country or have Dominican naturalization. Afro-Dominicans of predominant African descent make up a significant minority of the country's population, with Dominicans of mixed or partial African ancestry making up the vast majority of the population.".