There is, I am not ashamed to say, an entry in _America In So Many Words_ (Houghton-Mifflin, 1997) for _African American_. Regards, David Barnhart David K. Barnhart, Editor The Barnhart Dictionary Companion [quarterly] barnhart at highlands.com www.highlands.com/Lexik "Necessity obliges us to neologize." Thomas Jefferson-August 16, 1813