Panamanian American
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A Panamanian American is an American of Panamanian descent.
The Panamanian population at the 2010 Census was 165,456. Panamanians are the sixth smallest Hispanic group in the United States and the second smallest Central American population.
The largest population of Panamanians reside in Brooklyn and South Florida. In contrast to other Hispanic nationalities, Panamanians are heavily concentrated in Army base cities. These cities include Fayetteville, NC - Fort Bragg, Killeen, TX - Fort Hood, Columbus, GA - Fort Stewart, Colorado Springs, CO - Fort Carson, Clarksville, TN - Fort Campbell, El Paso, TX - Fort Bliss, and in the vicinity of Fort Dix in New Jersey. Cities home to Navy and Air Force bases also lay claim to a concentration of Panamanians. These include San Antonio, Hampton Roads, Jacksonville, San Diego, and Tampa.
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History [edit]
Since 1820, more than one million immigrants from Central and South America migrated to the United States. Until 1960, the U.S. Census Bureau did not produce statistics that separated the Panamanian immigrants, the South Americans and Central Americans. The Panamanian Americans increased slowly in the United States. Since the 1830s, only 44 arrivals were recorded in this country, by the early twentieth century more than 1,000 came annually. After World War II the flow of immigrants from Panama remained small even though there were no immigration restrictions on the people from the Western Hemisphere. However, the Panamanian immigration increased dramatically after the 1965 Immigration Act, which imposed a ceiling of 120,000 admissions from the hemisphere. Its increase immigration was such that by 1970, Panamanians were able to be one of the largest of the Central American groups in the United States. Most Panamanians that came were nonwhites and most were women. It could register that the number of immigrant males per 100 females was very low in the 1960s, falling to 51 for Panama. Many the female immigrants worked of in service, domestic, or low-paid, white-collar workers who immigrated to earn money to, in return, send home. Since 1962 the percentage of employed newcomers who are domestic servants has remained high, ranging from 15 to 28 percent. The entry of homemakers and children after 1968 was eased by the immigration preference system favoring family reunions. They had already approximated 86,000 people of Panamanian ancestry living in the United States.[1]
Education [edit]
Although many of the first Panamanian immigrants managed to get or to hold jobs, the second generation of Panamanian Americans placed more emphasis on vocational training and college education. Most newcomers are domestic, very few are agricultural or industrial laborers. In the last two decades many Panamanians have embraced professional careers, and become white collar workers. Subsequent generations have progressed even further in their educational and professional pursuits.[1]
Demography [edit]
The Panamanians have traditionally preferred the large urban cities. Thus, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Panamanians congregated in urban areas, especially in very large metropolitan cities. Most Panamanian immigrants are set in New England, or on the Gulf Coast, or Pacific Coast, or in middle Atlantic or Great Lakes areas. While, New York City contains the largest urban population of Panamanians. Also there an important number of Panamanians settled in Florida and California. Unlike most other Hispanic groups, the vast majority of Panamanian Americans are black, with the remaining being mainly Mestizo.[1] Although most Panamanian Americans speak Spanish, the group tends to identify itself more with West Indian groups rather than with other Hispanic groups, this tendency is most prevalent among black Panamanian Americans, which may be due to large Jamaican immigration, which occurred during the early 1900s, many of them retained their West Indian culture. Most Panamanians, along with Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Colombians, and Venezuelans have higher percentages of African descent than other Hispanic groups.
List of Panamanian American comunities [edit]
This are lists that indicated the most largest population of Panamanian Americans according states, residence areas and percentages.
States [edit]
The 10 states with the largest population of Panamanians (Source: 2010 Census):
- Florida - 28,741
- New York - 28,200
- California - 17,768
- Texas - 13,994
- Georgia - 8,678
- Virginia - 7,180
- North Carolina - 5,708
- New Jersey - 5,431
- Maryland - 5,341
- Pennsylvania - 3,234
Areas [edit]
The largest population of Panamanians are situated in the following areas (Source: Census 2010):
- New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA MSA - 29,619
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL MSA - 13,529
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA - 7,322
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA - 6,353
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA MSA - 5,599
- Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA - 4,234
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA - 3,772
- Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSA - 3,350
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA - 3,162
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA - 2,841
- San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX MSA - 2,663
- Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA - 2,658
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA - 2,556
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA MSA - 2,384
- Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI MSA - 2,300
- San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA MSA - 2,144
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA MSA - 2,002
- Baltimore-Towson, MD MSA - 1,877
- Fayetteville, NC MSA - 1,788
- Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH MSA - 1,749
US communities with largest population of people of Panamanians ancestry [edit]
The top 25 US communities with the highest populations of Panamanians (Source: Census 2010)
- New York City - 22,353
- Los Angeles, CA - 2,131
- San Antonio, TX - 1,602
- Jacksonville, FL - 1,165
- Fayetteville, NC - 1,154
- Miami, FL - 1,113
- Houston, TX - 1,076
- San Diego, CA - 1,018
- Killeen, TX - 998
- Chicago, IL - 883
- Washington, DC - 742
- Boston, MA # Hillcrest Heights, FL - 1.57%
- Pemberton Heights, NJ - 1.40%
- Indian Creek, FL - 4.65%
- Lisbon, FL - 1.92%
Panamanians are more than 1% of the entire population in only four communities in the US, none of which has a significant population. As a result, Panamanians are one of the least visible Hispanic nationalities in the US.
US communities with high percentages of people of Panamanian ancestry [edit]
US communities with the highest percentages of Panamanians as a percent of total population (Source: Census 2010)
- Virginia Beach, VA - 702
- Miramar, FL - 700
- Columbus, GA - 696
- Pembroke Pines, FL - 676
- Tampa, FL - 656
- Colorado Springs, CO - 642
- Newport News, VA - 615
- Charlotte, NC - 608
- Austin, TX - 607
- Orlando, FL - 596
- Clarksville, TN - 588
- El Paso, TX - 551
- Dallas, TX - 458
- Philadelphia, PA - 737
List of Panamanian Americans [edit]
- Linda Martín Alcoff - philosopher
- Tatyana Ali - Actress/Singer
- Ra Un Nefer Amen - founder of the Pan-African religious organization Ausar Auset Society, dedicated to providing Afrocentric based spiritual training to people of African descent.
- Nancy Ames - American folk singer and songwriter. She is the granddaughter of former President of Panama Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro.
- Braulio Baeza - American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey
- Uri Berenguer - play-by-play announcer for the Boston Red Sox Spanish Beisbol Network
- A. R. Bernard - Founder, Senior Pastor and CEO of Christian Cultural Center (CCC), in Brooklyn, New York. He born in Panama, but emigrated to New York with his family when he had four.
- Roberto Blades - Panamanian Salsa singer
- Rubén Blades - Salsa Singer
- Jordana Brewster - Actress
- Tyson Beckford - Actor/Model
- Jeff Buckley - (1966 – 1997), American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. His mother was a Panama Canal Zonian of mixed Greek, French, American and Panamanian descent,[2]
- Rod Carew - Baseball Hall of Famer
- El Chombo - American-born Panamanian producer and artist
- Billy Cobham - Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader. Panamanian born, American raised[3]
- Emayatzy Corinealdi - American film and television actress.
- Ed Cota - American professional basketball player
- Eddie Castro - Panamanian-born jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing
- Ruben Douglas - professional basketball player
- Billy Cobham - Jazz Fusion Drummer
- Adrian Fenty - American politician who served as the sixth mayor of the District of Columbia
- Gary Forbes - Panamanian professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets.
- Brooke Hogan - American singer, actress, model, socialite, and television personality, and the eldest child of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.
- Hulk Hogan - Professional Wrestler. He is of Italian, French and Panamanian descent.[4]
- Sam Hoger - American mixed martial artist
- David Iglesias (attorney) - American attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Shoshana Johnson - Panamanian-born former United States soldier, and was the first black or Hispanic female prisoner of war in the military history of the United States. She is Panamanian born, and American raised.
- Clark Kent (producer)
- Olga F. Linares - Panamanian–American academic anthropologist and archaeologist
- Sigrid Nunez - American writer.
- J. August Richards - American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of vampire hunter Charles Gunn on the WB cult television series Angel. He is of Panamanian descent.[5]
- Mariano Rivera - New York Yankees pitcher
- Michele Ruiz - Broadcaster and Founder of SaberHacer.com
- Sacario - American rapper and songwriter
- Clarence Samuels - (1900–1983), was the first Hispanic American of African descent photographer in the United States Coast Guard and to command a cutter.
- Melissa De Sousa - Actress
- Demitrius Omphroy - American-born Panamanian footballer. He is of Panamanian and Filipino descent.[6]
- Jorge Velásquez - thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.
- Nick Verreos - American fashion designer and contestant on the second season of the reality television program Project Runway. He is to a Greek-American father and a Panamanian mother.
- Josephine Wayne - (1908 - 2003) was the first wife of American film actor John Wayne. She was born in Consul General of Panama in the United States[7]
- Juan Williams - Journalist/Political Analyst
References [edit]
- ^ a b c http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Pa-Sp/Panamanian-Americans.html#ixzz1Sjls52oF Panamanian American. A Countries and Their Cultures: Panamanian American, by Rosetta Sharp Dean . Retrieved July 24, 2011, to 22:40 pm.
- ^ Kane, Rebecca (1998-07-19). "What is Jeff's Ethnic Background?". jeffbuckley.com. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- ^ allmusic Billy Cobham Biography
- ^ Hollywood Hulk Hogan By Hulk Hogan
- ^ "Raising the Bar: J. August Richards". TNT. Retrieved 2009-08-18.[dead link]
- ^ Dominguez F., Jose Miguel (2010-06-02). "Entrenamiento. Demitrius Omphroy quiere entrar en la sub-21". PA-Digital.com (in Spanish) (Panama America). Retrieved 2011-01-14.
- ^ Time Magazine, October 12, 1942
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