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Name Game: The Folly in the Attempt to Define "African-American"
URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2106753/

Description:
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.

LII Topics: African Diaspora, Black Resources

Publisher:
Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC

Extra Keywords
black african american

LII Database Information:
Record 23455 created by Maria Brandt on 03/05/2007
Last modification on 03/05/2007
Published: 03/07/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23455

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