Re: Whiteness?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 7, 2000, 2:10 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> Why should northern Africa be excluded?
Good question. They're fairly light-skinned in that area, as I
understand.
> But even if we take Africa arbitrarily to mean 'sub-Saharan Africa', I
> still suspect the epithet would never be applied to an Afrikaaner who was
> granted US citizenship.
Certainly not.
> I.e. African-American does not mean purely &
> simply 'an American citizen whose forebears come from Africa'.
Right, it's simply an alternate term for "Black", neither of which terms
seem particularly accurate, since "Blacks" aren't literally
black-skinned any more than "Whites" are white-skinned.
Also, I suspect that an Australian Aborigine living in the US would
probably be called "African-American", making it even an more absurd
term than it already is!
> _Logically_ yes. But there seems precious little logic in all this.
True enough.
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