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Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned ...
For adult Black men, the rate of obesity was 31.6% in 2010. [197] For adult Black women, the rate of obesity was 41.2% in 2010. [197] African Americans have higher rates of mortality than any other racial or ethnic group for 8 of the top 10 causes of death. [198] In 2013, among men, Black men had the highest rate of getting cancer, followed by ...
According to The Washington Post, their refusal to accept the United States' definition of black has left many feeling attacked from all directions. At times, white and black Americans might discriminate against them for their lighter or darker skin tones; African Americans might believe that Afro-Latino immigrants are denying their blackness.
In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The term negro means the color black in Spanish and Portuguese (from Latin niger), where English took it from. [1]
Black male studies (BMS), [1] also known as Black men's studies, [2] [3] Black masculinist studies, [4] African-American male studies, [5] and African-American men's studies, [6] is an area of study within the interdisciplinary field of Black studies [7] [8] [9] that primarily focuses on the study of Black men and boys. [10]
The painting Negro con Mulata produce Zambo ('a negro man with a mulatto woman makes a zambo'), Cristóbal Lozano, c. 1771–1776. Sambo is a derogatory label for a person of African descent in the Spanish language. Historically, it is a name in American English derived from a Spanish term for a person of African and Native American ancestry.
The Magical Negro is a trope in American cinema, television, and literature. In the cinema of the United States, the Magical Negro is a supporting stock character who comes to the aid of the (usually white) protagonists in a film. [1]
In Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang (1994), Clarence Major explains how African Americans use “man” as “a form of address carrying respect and authority” and used by “black males to counteract the degrading effects of being addressed by whites as ‘boy’”. [19]