Re: CHAT: geographical nomenclature [was Re: Language of Tetril]
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 20:03 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
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>> Speaking of which, do you have to be black to qualify as an
>> African-American, or is being of African descent sufficient.
Well, we don't use the term for North Africans...
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>> Khoisan people etc, who have dark skin but aren't negroid?
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>A doubtful case. In general, the label A-A is reserved for descendants of
>slaves, not just any old Africans.
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My impression is that most US slaves came from West Africa. Probably before
Europeans figured out how to sail south, blacks in Europe came from Sudan or
East Africa through the good offices of Arab traders?