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Name Game: The Folly in the Attempt to Define "African-American"
This September 2004 article discusses "a recent version of ... [the racial identity debate that] involves immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean and whether they are 'African-Americans.'" Includes a consideration of the racial identity of politician Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan immigrant to the U.S. From the online magazine Slate.
http://www.slate.com/id/2106753/
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