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Post by Skaathar on Feb 15, 2018 18:43:50 GMT
With Black Panther on the horizon, I keep reading news about how it showcases a cast of African-Americans, or how it's a great opportunity for African-Americans, etc. and I'm starting to get irritated with that term. Why? Because not all of the cast are Americans. Some are British, some are from Latin countries, etc. So they can't really be generalized as African-Americans.
Which made me wonder, is there a better term for people with black/darker skin color than African-American? Something that's still politically correct but doesn't limit the scope to just Americans? Something like the term "Caucasian" which encompasses all white/fair skinned people despite which country they're from.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 15, 2018 19:15:24 GMT
I think the closest version of that is 'Negroid' which I think is still used in the medical sense;correct me if I'm wrong. Given how that has fallen out of fashion in casual conversation, and the description of the cast being African-American is certainly incorrect (Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico City), black is just fine.
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Post by Archelaus on Feb 15, 2018 19:18:16 GMT
I generally use "black". For people of African descent of other nationalities, I would use "black (insert nationality)" (i.e. "black American", "black British", etc.).
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Post by THawk on Feb 15, 2018 19:29:25 GMT
With Black Panther on the horizon, I keep reading news about how it showcases a cast of African-Americans, or how it's a great opportunity for African-Americans, etc. and I'm starting to get irritated with that term. Why? Because not all of the cast are Americans. Some are British, some are from Latin countries, etc. So they can't really be generalized as African-Americans. Which made me wonder, is there a better term for people with black/darker skin color than African-American? Something that's still politically correct but doesn't limit the scope to just Americans? Something like the term "Caucasian" which encompasses all white/fair skinned people despite which country they're from. "Negro" used to be the word you are looking for, and in some languages it is still perfectly acceptable, but in English it's been charged too much. |
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Post by outrider127 on Feb 15, 2018 21:42:16 GMT
Everyone just uses 'black, been that way since the 1970's
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Post by ThatGuy on Feb 15, 2018 21:46:46 GMT
By my name...
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Feb 15, 2018 22:14:46 GMT
Yikes.
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Post by dazz on Feb 15, 2018 23:19:57 GMT
Well African-American is a fine description for African-Americans key is learning to use it when appropriate, I think I recall Idris Elba being described as one of the best African-American actors today once, which is hilarious seeing as how he's british, but if you just want a name to call black people as a whole well black works, hell call em BAP's, Black and Proud, or fuck I don't care call em DSPOEMAWAAOIWP, darker skinned people of equal merit and worth as any other including white people, but then that could also include latino's so I dunno.
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