ADJECTIVE
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pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry
African-American culture
How To Use Afro-American In A Sentence
- ‘Community is celebrated, especially by urban community leaders and activists,’ Patterson writes, but ‘the truth is that Afro-Americans lead the nation in their unconnectedness to community support groups.’
- As a spicy paragrapher, originator of attractive news features, and as a keen observer of popular tastes, he has few equals and no superiors in the army of Afro-American journalists. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
- Rich, rhythmical patterns and grooves represent roots in African culture, or to be more exact, Afro-American music in the realm of jazz, soul and funk.
- He specializes in American literature, African-American culture from 1940 to 1960, Afro-American autobiography, nonfiction prose, and popular culture.
- In the late 1980s, Blacks began to abandon the term Afro-American, adopting the autonym African American instead. Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Black's Fine, Thanks: Writer Deborah Dickerson Pulls the Obama Race Card
- Afro-Americans account for 12% of the US population.
- While various factors should be responsible for the tragedies of the Afro-American people, racist prejudice or the double oppression of racism and sexism are the root causes.
- On some occasions these performers also performed secular dances of Afro-American origin like capoeira, rumba, carnival dances, or Afro-Uruguayan candombe.
- She greets them with sweet singsong cockneyisms that bear no resemblance to her smoky Afro-American jazz singing voice.
- Have you a "new freedom" for white Americans and a new slavery for your Afro-American fellow citizens?