During the 1990s, much of Canarsie's white population left for the suburbs as part of a national phenomenon referred to as "
white flight".
[136] In the early 21st century, Canarsie's population is mostly black due to significant West Indian immigration in the area.
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Brownsville attracted many immigrants from the Caribbean during the 1980s, especially from Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti, Grenada, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago.
In the early twenty-
first century the population of Brownsville was largely African American, with smaller groups of Latinos and West Indians.
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During the 1960s, East New York transitioned from being predominately Jewish and Italian to being predominately African American and Puerto Rican. However, now East New York is more diversified, with large African American, Puerto Rican, Dominican, West Indian, and South Asian populations.[29]
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