With experiements how can i know if i am part african without expesive DNA test?

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With experiements how can i know if i am part african without expesive DNA test? chatting on aim can help..?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Your question doesn't really make sense.

If you are "African-American" in the common sense of the word, you almost certainly are of african ancestry, along with european and native american. Genealogy can trace your history in this country, however you are very unlikely to discover your exact African origins without DNA testing - although historically, slaves brought to the U.S.A were primarily from West Africa or what-is-now Angola, so you likely would have origins in these vague regions (there are, of course, hundreds of ethnic groups in these regions, so this doesn't really tell you much).

If you are 'white' in the common sense, you may still have african ancestry - because of the intense racism of America, many light-skinned blacks 'passed' as white.

Lastly, if you are 'Hispanic', you are also likely to be part-african, as many slaves were brought to the Spanish new world colonies and intermarried with the european and native populations. The amount of this varies by country, but some modern testing has shown that it is more common than originally thought even in 'white' countries like Argentina (I don't have cites for these studies off the top of my head, but you should be able to track them back fairly easily).

In short, you can use regular genealogy to track your family in the U.S. and historically-known patterns to hypothesize an origin, but there is no definite way to identify a speicifc ethnic group w/o DNA testing (like Oprah's Kpele) or luck/oral history (such as Alex Haley's Roots - not, albeit, without controversy).

As another answer did point out, however, we are ALL african, originally, at least, since homo sapien sapien originates in East Africa.

Lastly, to echo someone else again, 'chatting on aim' wouldn't help anything. If you want to know, do research, don't waste time chatting.