On the non-utility of "African-American"

[Alice Faber]

Bethany Dumas wrote:
> So what do Canadians say?
>

I don't know what people say, but a few years ago in Nova Scotia, I went
to an exhibit sponsored by the provincial museum on Black Loyalists.
I've just gone back to the web site, and they refer to these settlers as
Black Loyalists and their descendants as Black.



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