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  2. African Americans - Wikipedia

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    The term African American was popularized by Jesse Jackson in the 1980s, [7] although there are recorded uses from the 18th and 19th centuries, [352] for example, in post-emancipation holidays and conferences. [353] [354] Earlier terms also used to describe Americans of African ancestry referred more to skin color than to ancestry.

  3. African-American culture - Wikipedia

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    African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.

  4. Blackness - Wikipedia

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    African-American culture, also known as black culture, in the United States refers to the cultural contributions of African Americans to the culture of the United States, either as part of or distinct from American culture Black nationalism, advocates a racial definition (or redefinition) of national identity, as opposed to multiculturalism

  5. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    More than two million African-American men rushed to register for the draft. By the time of the armistice with Germany in November 1918, over 350,000 African Americans had served with the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. [135] [136] [137] Most African American units were relegated to support roles and did not see combat.

  6. Nigrescence - Wikipedia

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    Hundreds of years later, the descendants of African diaspora struggle to process any form of trauma, which typically results in delayed progress in emotional development. Professor William E. Cross Jr. included a theory of Nigrescence in his groundbreaking book Shades of Black: Diversity in African American Identity, which

  7. Multiracial Americans - Wikipedia

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    President Barack Obama is of European-American and East African ancestry; he identifies as African-American. [97] A 2007 poll, when Obama was a presidential candidate, found that Americans differed in their responses as to how they classified him: a majority of White and Hispanics classified him as biracial, but a majority of African-Americans ...

  8. Biracial and multiracial identity development - Wikipedia

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    Biracial and multiracial identity development is described as a process across the life span that is based on internal and external forces such as individual family structure, cultural knowledge, physical appearance, geographic location, peer culture, opportunities for exploration, socio-historical context, etc. [1]

  9. Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia

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    African-American people also chose to pass as whites during Jim Crow and beyond. For example, United States civil rights leader Walter Francis White conducted investigations in the South during which he passed as white to gather information on lynchings and hate crimes , and to protect himself in socially hostile environments.