10. Cuba
Black population: 1,126,894
In 2012, Census showed that black people constituted 9.26 percent of total population. Africans came to Cuba during sixteen and seventeen century when the country was a Spanish colony. Today, blacks living in Cuba face different forms of discrimination – from underrepresentation in politics, academia, private sector to high unemployment and poverty.In New York Times article titled “For Blacks in Cuba, the revolution hasn’t begun”, the author explains how until recently hotel managers didn’t want to hire blacks “so as not to offend the supposed sensibilities of their European clientele”.
