"African American" = 'black'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yes, I remember getting a freshman theme featuring this usage before 1989.

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
  ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Charles Doyle
Subject: "African American" = 'black'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

BTW: Among students, hyper-sensitive to racial terminology
if not (other) realities, it's not at all uncommon to find
black Africans referred to as "African Americans."

--Charlie
____________________________

>Sender: American Dialect Society >Poster: Laurence Horn
>Subject: Re: "obtain" 'suffer/incur'
>------------------------------------------------------------

. . . the semi-apocryphal "The budget is back in the African-
American".
>
>LH

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



---------------------------------
How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low  PC-to-Phone call rates.

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org