"swart"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/15/2014 01:24 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > swart
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>A word that needs to be returned to circulation. _Swart-American_ has a
>certain je ne sais quoi, though I don't know what it is.

Let's try.

The successor to "African-American", which succeeded "black" and
"person of colour", which succeeded ...?
Darker-skinned South-Americans?
American women who've spent too much idle time in the sun (natural or
artificial or chemical)?

Joel



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