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African-American

adjective

  1. pertaining to black American culture or people
  2. american, of african descent
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈæ.fɹɪ.kən əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/

adj

Etymology: Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.

  1. Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.

    The rioters overshadowed the message of peaceful protesters on prior days: They had called for justice for Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died from spinal injuries after police arrested him this month.

  2. Black.
  3. Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.

    African-American music

noun

Etymology: Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.

  1. A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
  2. Any black American person; by extension, any black person.
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