[Ads-l] Of age

[Yagoda, Ben]

For a while, in the ’70s, Federal regulations made reference to “Spanish-surnamed Americans” and “hispanic-surnamed Americans.” (The last New York Times reference to the former was in 1979, so presumably it ended around then. https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/%22spanish+surnamed+americans%22/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/newest/<https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/"spanish+surnamed+americans"/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/newest/>

 A friend and I, fancying ourselves wits, tried to come up with similar appellations for other groups. So Jews were “precious-metal surnamed Americans” (Goldberg, Silverman), and blacks were “presidential-surnamed Americans” (Washington, Jefferson). We never got any farther than that..

Ben


On Feb 9, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM<mailto:wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:

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Vagino-Americans?

JL

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:23 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net<mailto:dwhause at cablemo.net>> wrote:

"People of vaginity"?
Dave Hause

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Assuming this always designates the marked category, are women =E2=80=9Cp=
eople of
sex=E2=80=9D?  Or just =E2=80=9Cpersons of gender=E2=80=9D?


On Feb 8, 2017, at 2:31 PM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM>> wrote:

Heard on the news - Edward James Olmos discussing the AARP Movies for
Grownups Awards refers to older people as - "people of age" - in the sam=
e
way "people of color" is used.



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