Indo-Caribbean American

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Indo-Caribbean American people are Americans who trace their ancestry ultimately to India, though whose recent ancestors lived in the Caribbean, where they began migrating in 1838. There are large groups of Indo-Trinidadians and Indo-Guyanese, especially in New York City.

The size of the Indo-Caribbean community in America is uncertain, as many were classified as either black or Asian Indian. Approximately 400,000 Americans were born in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, the former having an Indian majority, and the latter being 40% Indian and 18% mixed-race (many of which are part-Indian). The percentage of these who are of Indian origin, however, is uncertain.

For more information about Caribbean migration, please see Holger Henke's, The West Indian Americans, Westport: Greenwood Press 2001.

[edit] See also

• Indian American people
• Indo-Caribbean people
• Desi
• Tamil diaspora

[edit] References

• Chhaya Community Development report
• The importance of being counted
• US Census 2000 foreign born population by country

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