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>Black people (specifically this means people in the US who have dark skin and whose ancestry is in the US) So dark-skinned Africans aren't "Black"? (But they
by 0xDEAFBEAD 1y ago
>Black people (specifically this means people in the US who have dark skin and whose ancestry is in the US)
So dark-skinned Africans aren't "Black"? (But they are "black"?)
Why not just use black/white for skin tone, and African-American for "people in the US who have dark skin and whose ancestry is in the US"? Then for African immigrants, we can reference the specific nation of origin, e.g. "Ghanaian-American".
- gfehhffvvv 1y agoAfrican-American includes Americans of African descent that nevertheless are not descendants of Africans that were slaves. I suppose this is a reason.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y agoI don't think that's how the term is used.