this is to the guy named LATER JUNK black is not a ethnicity either.?

Question

that is not a question but i read on one of your responses that you said you don't like the word african american because it's a nationality not an ethnicity but you think the word black is? what is black, first of all black isn't a nationality or ethnicity and second of all black isn't evn our skin color it's brown. african american is a better term anyway and they use because you are american with african descent. where do think your ancestors came from? and you should be proud to be an african american. if people want to comment on this, they can but i just felt i had to type this out.

Answer 1

African American is actually an ethnicity. American is a nationality. The term "African American" generally is understood to refer to the ethnic group comprised of the descendants of Africans brought to America as slaves. Although there are now millions of black Americans who are descendants of people who arrived here after the abolition of slavery, the term still largely refers to our ethnic group, even as that group becomes more diverse.

Black is not an ethnicity. It's a very broad term applied to and claimed by people of visible African ancestry.

Answer 2

Okay, I'm the oddball here.

I prefer the term "Black" as I see myself as a black american, not an african american. Just like we refer to caucasian people as "White" rather than european american. You see?

If someone holds african nationality, such as a friend of mine who is from Kenya, then that person would be an African American.

Now, for the ethnicity debate. My ethnicity is African, because I am of African descent. White people's ethnicity is European, because they are of European descent. However, when referring to people, you don't point at a black person and say "There's an African", just like you don't point at a white person and say "There's a European".

I'm not sure if you'll be able to fully understand the point that I am trying to make, so I'll make a long story short by saying: I disagree.

Answer 3

Agree. Black in this reality of America is made up for political control over Africans and their visible African descents. Some have argued that we are black more than African American, but African American is saying exactly what we are apart of in culture and nationally.