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词条 Mauritanian Americans
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  1. Demography

  2. Notable people

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Mauritanian Americans
| population = est. 5,000[1]
| popplace = Ohio (Cincinnati and Columbus) and Erlanger (Kentucky) areas
| langs= Niger-Congo languages, French, Hassaniya Arabic
| rels = Islam, Other
}}Mauritanian Americans are Americans of Mauritanian descent or Mauritanians who have American citizenship. According to answers provided to an open-ended question included in the 2000 US census, 993 people said that their ancestry or ethnic origin was Mauritanian.[1] According to a 2012 published report, however, about 4,000 people of Mauritanian origin live in the Cincinnati (Ohio) and Erlanger (Kentucky) areas[1] and another 1,065 Mauritanians live in Columbus, Ohio. [2]

Demography

Most Mauritanians living in the United States are refugees, fleeing slavery and poverty. There are Mauritanian immigrant communities in several parts of United States, such as Brooklyn, New York, and Memphis, Tennessee, but at least one-third of the people of Mauritanian origin resides in Ohio (mostly in Cincinnati and Columbus) and Erlanger, Kentucky.[3] Some of them were slaves (Black Moors) or slave owners (White Moors).[1] Some of the White Moors who settled in the Cincinnati area had clashed with the Mauritanian government, either because they supported a failed candidate for president or because their families spoke out against government policies, including slavery.[1] Some "Afro-Mauritanians", who have a darker skin but were never enslaved, are also present in the United States.[1] The White Moors and Black Moors speak dialects of Arabic, while the Afro-Mauritanians speak African languages.[1]

Mauritanian Americans have created several community associations in the United States, such as Mauritanian Community and Friendship in Erlanger, Kentucky (composed mostly of White Moors) and the Mauritanian Community Association of Ohio in Cincinnati (composed almost entirely of Afro-Mauritanians).[4] The purpose of the latter organization is to help Mauritanian Americans "in many aspects: human, social and cultural". Its future plans include assisting Mauritanian refugees in Senegal and Mali and persons living in Mauritania.[5]

Notable people

  • Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed
  • Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
  • Nasser Weddady
  • Mamoudou Athie

See also

  • North Africans in the United States

References

1. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ancestry/ancestry_q_by_DAC_2000.xls | title=Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000 | accessdate=4 July 2013 | publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}
2. ^[https://www.census.gov/population/foreign/files/acsbr12-16_supptab1.pdf U.S. Census Bureau: Selected Countries of Birth for the United States and 15 Metropolitan Statistical Areas with the Largest African-Born Populations: 2008–2012].
3. ^ Lucy M. Long (2015). [https://books.google.es/books?id=DBzYCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA405&lpg=PA405&dq=thousands+mauritanians+in+Ohio&source=bl&ots=7XO-zc-BgO&sig=2oYIhM-wQR4cmN2q7K_2xV6XOso&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMg4_upMnMAhUKaRQKHX8TBqkQ6AEINjAD#v=onepage&q=thousands%20mauritanians%20in%20Ohio&f=false Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural Encyclopedia]. Page 405.
4. ^"Mauritanian refugees make new home in Ohio", CNN, reported by John D. Sutter, March 17, 2012
5. ^Mauritanian Community Association {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012204839/http://mca-ohio.org/about.php |date=2013-10-12 }}

External links

  • Mauritanians in America
{{North African American}}{{Arab American}}{{African immigration to the United States}}

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