Do African-Americans know that they have European DNA?

[Creaticia]

Apart from those who have already had a DNA test, are African-Americans generally aware that they are of mixed race? Or has the question never arisen for most of them?

[Leto]

Some do but most of them are just too ignorant to know. They just see themselves as black, that's all there is to it.

[Beowulf]

I remember watching some videos of African Americans doing the DNA test and a lot of them were surprised of being like 1/4 European, seems that most of them don't know that.

[Creoda]

Some do but most of them are just too ignorant to know. They just see themselves as black, that's all there is to it.

They're not wrong there.

'African-American' is a recent, manufactured identity anyway.

[Zeno]

Here, obviously only half-black people, where some of them don't even look like Africans to the slightest, think of themselves as exclusively black.

It's no surprise that most African Americans don't know they have significant European admixture.

[Oghuz]

Racial self-identification =/= Actual genetics

[Ajeje Brazorf]

Yes, they know they have about 15-25% European DNA, but they don't take much pride in it, as it is the result of rapes of wives and daughters of slave families by slave owners, their sons, and overseers.

Fun fact: most start identifying as African American at around 28% SSA. Even nowadays, there is a tendency among mixed-race individuals to identify only as black and suppress their white side, even when this constitutes about 70% of their ancestry.

[Scarface F]

They do. Average Afram is about 80% black.

[JerryS.]

Many "light skin" black Americans claim American Indian ancestry as an explanation for their lighter color; they do this because they are racist against European Americans and don't want to face that they are part European also.

[gixajo]

23andMe gave me 0.2% Senegambian so I have the right to identify as African American, (even though I have never been in America or have any genetic contribution from American continent one of my sisters looks Amazonian).