Info re Melvin A. Butler needed

[Hillary Brown]

The Chicago Manual of Style now recommends that African American
specifically not be hyphenated as a compound adjective (likewise for Asian
American, etc.), so as not to convey inferiority in Americanness (or
something of the sort).

hb

On 5/20/07, Bethany Dumas <dumasb at utk.edu> wrote:
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> > Just wondering, Bethany: "African-American" above is a compound
> > adjective and thus must be hyphenated.  Is that book's title really
> > without a hyphen?
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> That decision will of course be made by the editorial staff. Here's the
> sigline in current use:
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> Editorial Staff
> African American National Biography
> W.E.B. Du Bois Institute . Harvard University
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> ph. 617.496.0983 fax 617.496.0169
> www.fas.harvard.edu/~aanb/
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> Bethany
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