"communities of color"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Feb 19 22:30:27 UTC 2012


On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg
<nunberg at ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> How common is it to regard "X of color" as excluding Asians?

The proper question is,

"How common is it for Asians, particularly the Chinese, to regard 'X
of color' as including Asians?"

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