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'Negro' to 'African-American': What are we?

By Farah Griffin

4:24 AM on 07/24/2009

Since the arrival of Africans in what would become the United States, the issue of naming has been central to black identity. The ability to name oneself, as an individual and as a group, is an act of self-determination. Throughout our history, the names chosen by black people to identify...