Afro-Latin Population
- Eddie Perry
- Oct 17, 2025
- 1 min read
In 2019, there were 2.2 million Afro-Latins in the United States, nearly 1% of the total U.S. population. As a share of the Latino population, Afro-Latins represent 4% of U.S. Latinos and have doubled over the last two decades. From 2000 to 2019, the Afro-Latin population in the United States grew by 120.8%, almost twice the growth rate for non-Black Latinos over the same period.
Latinos and Latinidad are not a monolith and Afro-Latinidad is Latinidad. To be in Latino solidarity is to recognize how the lived experiences of Latinos differ by characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, immigration status, sexuality, citizenship status, disability, and class.
Because views of race in Latin America and the United States are slightly different, there is a fluidity in identifying with terms such as "black" or "Afro Latino" among Latinos in the United States.
Recent immigrants from Latin America are more likely to embrace mixed identities, while thinking less of their African side, and some immigrant Latinos who are full black with little to no admixture do not identify as black.
In contrast, Latinos who have lived in the United States for several generations are more likely to adopt urban afrocentric mentalities from African Americans and abandon that of their home countries.
Data from a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center shows that Hispanic people in the US with darker skin color are more likely to face incidents of discrimination than those with lighter skin.
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