ok actual question once again I have noticed that "black" ("Black"?) is now being capitalized in news media I vaguely recall that recent historical practice was to use the non-capitalized variant Is there some kind of new guidance (???)
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also uncertain how we went from "Negro" to "black" (I think?) to "African-American" in my youth which at some point was deprecated in favor of "black" again to "Black" (apparently?) is this some kind of treadmill? Seems not to occur with Asian terms, but has with Hispanics(?)
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this comic was published in the 1980s and is an accurate representation of two of the several kinds of white peoplepic.twitter.com/EtLP8N5UuR
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Though I can’t speak to all of it, I do know that African American has mostly been dropped in favor of black Bc most black Americans are thoroughly divorced from their African heritage and culture. Someone who actually immigrated from Africa would be African American.
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plus the white south african immigrants getting scholarships
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