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| Ethnicity in Texas |
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| Total population | |
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| 3,444,712[1] (2020) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Ark-La-Tex, Central Texas, East Texas, Galveston, Greater Austin, Greater Houston, Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, Greater San Antonio,[2] North Texas, Northeast Texas, Southeast Texas | |
| Languages | |
| Texan English, Texan Spanish, Southern American English, Louisiana Creole, African-American Vernacular English, African languages | |
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| Black Protestant, Roman Catholicism, Hoodoo (spirituality), Louisiana Voodoo[3] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Black Southerners especially Black Louisianians and Black Oklahomans, Afro-Mexicans, Blaxicans in Texas, Tejanos, White Americans in Texas, Louisiana Creoles in Texas |
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| African Americans |
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African American Texans or Black Texans are residents of the state of Texas who are of African ancestry and people that have origins as African-American slaves. African Americans formed a unique ethnic identity in Texas while facing the problems of societal and institutional discrimination as well as colorism for many years. The first person of African heritage to arrive in Texas was Estevanico, who came to Texas in 1528.[4]
The earliest black residents in Texas were Afro-Mexican slaves brought by the Spanish.[5]
A large majority of Black Texans live in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio metropolitan areas.[6]
The 2020 U.S. Census identified the Black population alone, non-Hispanic population at 3,444,712,[1] making Texas' Black population the largest of all states and territories in the United States.[7]
- ^ a b "P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – United States by State and Territory". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ "How the Eastside Became Home to San Antonio's Black Community". San Antonio Report. 15 January 2018. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "Religious Landscape Study". Archived from the original on 3 June 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ Dulaney, W. Marvin (25 July 2016) [June 9, 2010]. "African Americans". Handbook of Texas (online ed.). Texas State Historical Association.
- ^ "The Emergence of Afro-Tejano Society During the Spanish Colonial Period in Texas, 1528-1700". Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Texas". Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ "The Growing Diversity of Black America". 25 March 2021. Archived from the original on 24 July 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.