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[Lynne Murphy]

>On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>
>>  a bad thing to be.  (I'm also no one to Jesse Jackson and the NAACP,
>>  even though I've published about his "coinage" of 'African American'
>>  a bit.)  It seems far more important to be someone to the dictionary
>
>Have you traced the origins of "African American" at all?  If so, I would
>be interested in seeing your findings, as I have done research on this
>myself.

no, i've just relied on other peoples' work on the origins.  My
interests are its changes in meaning (and connotation!) and attitudes
toward it.
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M. Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 3AN    UK
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