What percentage of Black New Yorkers are of Caribbean origin?

[King of Kensington]

I would think around 40-50% are of Caribbean origin.  About 1/3 of NYC blacks are foreign born with the vast majority of immigrants coming from the Caribbean and if you include the second generation it must be over 40%. 

[publicunofficial]

Are we counting Dominicans as black or Hispanic?

[RI]

Are we counting Dominicans as black or Hispanic?

Potentially both

[King of Kensington]

Are we counting Dominicans as black or Hispanic?

Was thinking of the non-Hispanic Black population but good point.

[King of Kensington]

1/3 of Blacks in NYC are foreign born, and according to this source 84% of Black immigrants in New York were from the Caribbean.  Given the sizable second generation, it's got to be close to 50%.

http://blackdemographics.com/cities-2/new-york-nj-ny/

And according to this, 53% of Black New Yorkers in 1999 were of "native stock."  It's likely fallen below 50% since, so perhaps as many or more can trace their roots to the Caribbean as to the US South.

http://www.issuelab.org/resources/2675/2675.pdf

[jimrtex]

I would think around 40-50% are of Caribbean origin.  About 1/3 of NYC blacks are foreign born with the vast majority of immigrants coming from the Caribbean and if you include the second generation it must be over 40%. 

You might check ancestry data, though things like Trinidadian or Guyanese could be ambiguous. There is also a breakout for those of Hispanic origin, though again there could be ambiguity for Dominican or Puerto Rican.

To combine race and ancestry data, you'd probably have to use PUMS.

[King of Kensington]

Guyanese in NYC are mostly Indo-Guyanese I think (there is an Indo-Guyanese enclave in Queens), and census doesn't count them in the "West Indian" category.

[Tintrlvr]

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Guyanese in NYC are mostly Indo-Guyanese I think (there is an Indo-Guyanese enclave in Queens), and census doesn't count them in the "West Indian" category.

They usually self-identify racially as "Other" on the Census. There are some precincts in Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven, Queens that are plurality "Other" on the Census, which I believe are the only places in the country where that is the case.

[King of Kensington]

According to this book chapter, first- and second-generation West Indians made up 11% of NYC's population and less than half of NYC blacks were of "native stock."

http://tinyurl.com/jk3j4qk

So roughly half of NYC's non-Hispanic Black population.

[Suburbia]

Guyanese in NYC are mostly Indo-Guyanese I think (there is an Indo-Guyanese enclave in Queens), and census doesn't count them in the "West Indian" category.

[King of Kensington]

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[King of Kensington]

It's interesting to note that about 25% of the Black population of NYC in the 1920s was of Caribbean origin, a proportion that obviously declined during the Great Migration but increased significantly after 1970 or so.

For instance Colin Powell, Eric Holder, Shirley Chisholm and Harry Belafonte were/are of Caribbean descent.

[Torie]

In other news, Hudson has a fair number of black Puerto Ricans with Spanish names. Almost all are from NYC.