[Ads-l] _Afro-Saxon_

[Wilson Gray]

LIFE - Nov 25, 1946 - Page 125 [Caption]
https://books.google.com/books?id=cE0EAAAAMBAJ
Vol. 21, No. 22 - ‎Magazine - ‎Full view
THE DECADE'S [1936-1946] MOST SUITABLE SYMBOL WAS THE _AFRO-SAXON_ ART OF
THE JITTERBUG

Burning spear: an anthology of _Afro-Saxon_ poetry
https://books.google.com/books?id=6F-xAAAAIAAJ
Walter De Legall - 1963 - ‎Snippet view
The Authors [sic] WALTER DE LEGALL of Philadelphia edits DASElN, which is
an annual anthology of the arts — the only annual cosmopolitan literary
publication published internationally by _Afro-Saxons_.

The term has negative connotations among West Indians. E.g.:

Jet - Volume 39
https://books.google.com/books?id=fV0qAQAAIAAJ
1970 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions
Calvin Lockhart, handsome Bahamian actor who was featured in the movies,
Joanna and Cotton Comes To Harlem, defining an _Afro-Saxon_: "An
_Afro-Saxon_ is a Black West Indian whose feet are in the West Indies and
whose head is in the British Parliament."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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