From: a24061@ducksburg.com   
      
   On 2024-05-30, Ross Clark wrote:   
      
   > 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.)   
      
   Is there a reason why some people insist it should not be hyphenated?   
   It looks strange to me (especially in comparison with all the other   
   Xyz-American forms).   
      
      
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