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African-american

//ˈæ.fɹɪ.kən əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.

    "The rioters overshadowed the message of peaceful protesters on prior days: They had called for justice for Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died from spinal injuries after police arrested him this month."

  2. 2
    Black. US, broadly, offensive, proscribed, sometimes
  3. 3
    Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.

    "African-American music"

Adjective
  1. 1
    pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African descent.
  2. 2
    a person with African ancestry, ‘Negro’ and ‘Negroid’ are archaic and pejorative today wordnet
  3. 3
    Any black American person; by extension, any black person. US, broadly, offensive, proscribed, sometimes

Etymology

Etymology 1

Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.

Etymology 2

Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.

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