From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 30/05/2024 7:34 p.m., Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > On 2024-05-29 10:59:23 +0000, Ross Clark said:   
   >   
   >> African-American writer and activist.   
   >   
   > African American? She was born in the USA of American parents, lived in   
   > the USA, worked in the USA, and died in the USA. She was American. She   
   > may have had some ancestors from Africa, but that doesn't make her   
   > African. I have very recent ancestors from Ireland (including my   
   > mother), but I am not Irish.   
      
   Nor was she African. "African-American" (note hyphen) is a standard term   
   for Americans with African ancestry (within the last few centuries, that   
   is). Wikipedia also calls her just "American" (at the top), but later   
   considers her "African American" (no hyphen). It's clear that her   
   membership in that ethnic group had a great deal to do with her life and   
   work. (She did actually live in Africa for a few years in the 1960s.)   
      
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