"communities of color"

[Geoffrey Nunberg]

From the NY Times, 2/18:
> To the Sports Editor:
> 
> We in the Asian American community are proud of Jeremy Lin’s success, just as communities of color celebrated with pride when Jackie Robinson broke into baseball and Barack Obama became president.
> 
> As an educator, however, I am disheartened but not surprised to read that Jeremy Lin was taunted by racial slurs while playing Ivy League basketball. Most disheartening is that coaches and university and student athletic leaders failed to do something about it.....
> 
> Joyce Moy
> 
> New York
> 
> 
The writer is the executive director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute at City University of New York.

How common is it to regard "X of color" as excluding Asians?

Geoff

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