Marika
I have some problems with the whole thing. It seems to me that in this
country the term black initially included people of African, Caribbean and
Asian descent (1970s) and was in this respect mainly a political term -
indicating a political stance and identity. When this community started to
be fragmented than it was used to indicate mainly African, African-Caribbean
and African-American people - which would justify the capital b. However, in
all my papers I prefer to use African, African-Caribbean, Asian Caribbean,
East African Asian etc. when possible rather than Black or Asian. Black
British and British Asian are terms currently used to indicate people born
in this country, but once again how much is this terminology imposing
labels? Somebody once said that "black is a state of conscience". Should we
use a capital or small b for that?
Alda
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From: "Marika Sherwood" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 10:57 AM
Subject: capitalise or not?
> I usually capitalise the word Black when it refers to a people as we are
not
> really talking about colour. Do you agree/disagree?
>
> Marika
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