African-American

Meaning

1. A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
2. Black.
3. Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.
4. Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.
5. Any black American person; by extension, any black person.

Etymology / origin

Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.

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