African immigrants are recent immigrants to the united states from africa. This group is to be distinguished from afro-americans, afroa caribbeans and afro-latinos, who are descended from black africans
The first Chinese immigrants arrived in 1820 according to U.S. government records. 325 men are known to have arrived before the 1848 california gold rush7] which drew the first significant number of laborers from China who mined for gold and performed menial labor
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The term Hispanic was first adopted by the United States government in the early 1970s, during the administration of richard nixon and has since been used in local and federal employment,mass media academia, and business market research. It has been used in the U.S. Census since 1980