Are most people in Cuba Black people?

Question

Are most people in Cuba Black people?

Answer 1

roshaad brings up a good point. most countries treat blacks like second-class citizens, but when it comes time to compete in the olympics, all of sudden black people become the face of the nation.  

Answer 2

Cubans wouldn't admit they have African descent in them. Too ashamed.  

Answer 3

Yeah, just like Fidel and all them Cubans in Miami. All black...

Answer 4

There is a real mixture of people from a range of ethnic groups. A lot of spanish and african descendents and a lot of mixed race people.  

Answer 5

Isnt it strange that most of the Olympic representatives of Latin America are African descendants ? hmmm....

Answer 6

yes, but they are in denial

Answer 7

Diverse ethnic groups have been settling in Cuba since the time of European contact—including Spaniards and Africans and smaller groups of Chinese, Jews, and Yucatecan Indians (from the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico)—who have created a heterogeneous society by superimposing their cultural and social characteristics on those of earlier settlers.

More than half of Cubans are mulattoes (of mixed European and African lineage), and nearly two-fifths are descendants of white Europeans, mainly from Spain. Whites have been the dominant ethnic group for centuries, monopolizing the direction of the economy as well as access to education and other government services. Although mulattoes have become increasingly prominent since the mid-20th century, some mulattoes and blacks (of African heritage) still face racial discrimination.

Blacks make up about one-ninth of the population. In the early 16th century, Spaniards began to import African slaves as a substitute for the drastically reduced supply of Indian labourers. As many as 800,000 Africans eventually arrived to work on sugar plantations, the vast majority during the late 18th and 19th centuries. They were shipped mainly from Senegal and the Guinea Coast but originated in such diverse groups as the Yoruba and Bantu peoples. During the period 1906–31 tens of thousands of black Antillean labourers, nine-tenths of whom were Haitian or Jamaican, arrived as contract labourers. However, many returned home or were expelled by 1931. Blacks and mulattoes have had a considerable influence on Cuban culture, especially in music and dance.