Meanings
plural Negro-Americans
- datedoffensiveA black American.
The English-speaking inspector smiled and asked me whether I was a Communist. I said that I was a poet and a great admirer of Victor Hugo. He said, “Well, I wouldn't wonder if a Negro-American had advanced ideas.”
1937, Claude McKay, edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett, A Long Way from Home, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, published 2007, page 200Synonyms: African-American, BIPOC, BME, colored, colored person, minority, nonwhite, person of color
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA black American.
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