African-American
adjective
- pertaining to black American culture or people
- american, of african descent
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.
- 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.”
- Black.
- 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.
- A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
- Any black American person; by extension, any black person.