The Chicago Defender, which had the largest circulation of any African-American newspaper had a standard paragraph that they'd insert whenever they had to fill space and were still running it in the early 1980s. This explained that they always capitalised Black (never 'black') because the community preferred it. They didn't use a capital W in white because the white community didn't prefer it. So everybody was happy then.
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From: The Black and Asian Studies Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angela Allison
Sent: 01 March 2013 11:49
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Subject: wha' fe call I: Black, African, Negro
It was MUCH earlie than 1950s. Don't forget the impact of the Harlem Renaissance & the Negritude Movement
BUT also remember that many diasporan Africans (myself included) call themselves Black or African-Caribbean BECAUSE continental Africans have a problem with diasporans calling themselves African.
Angela Allison, Coventry UK
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From: Darrell Newton <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:39:10 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Black & Asian Bibliography @ The British Library
Not true. "Negro" in upper case was pioneered by 1950s activists such as T.R.M. Howard, John Duffy, Ralph Bunche, and author James Baldwin. The term African American was encouraged by Jesse Jackson in the 1970s who took issue with the usage of "black" by media sources to describe us. Further, never forget that "Black" is not racial, but ideological; and like most identities is fluid and ever-changing.
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The name-changes in the USA, from negro to Negro was I think by a campaign by those of African descent. As I think was the latest change to African-American.
Certainly some of my friends born on a Caribbean island and with relatives there, with whom I have discussed this, say they are ‘West Indian’ or ‘Caribbean’, but not African.
A friend in Cardiff many years ago told me she called herself ‘Welsh but Black’… her family had lived there for generations. Her daughter visited Nigeria (ancestral home, no contacts/relatives), and on her return told me she was certainly not African, felt a total foreigner there.
As for being called Asian. I would have protested by now…. Rather a large continent, so to say you are ‘Asian’ is meaningless.
From: The Black and Asian Studies Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of HARROW bhm
Sent: 28 February 2013 19:12
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Thanks for reply.
I wonder whether a survey was taken before Africans were called Negro, coloured or Black, or before the Africans in America were called Black American or African American. I think not.
To many, Black is a misnomer, and does not engage with the African identity. If people of Asian origin who have lived here for generations are called Asian, why not African for those of African origin?
At one time, Asians were called Black, was there a survey before this was changed to Asian?
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A never-ending discussion. When I came to the UK, ‘Black’ was anyone who had darker skin. Then it was divided between ‘Asian’, meaning people from the Indian sub-continent, and ‘Black’ meaning people either directly from or descended from Africa or the Caribbean (often referred to as the West Indies).
It would be interesting to do a survey of peoples of West Indian/Caribbean origins/descent and ‘dark-skinned’ peoples who have lived here for generations, what they would like to be called.
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Black and Asian?
Who does the Black represent?
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:20:45 +0000
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Here is the newly-expanded bibliography of Black & Asian British resources at The British Library, 107 pages. Nothing’s been deleted so you can bin previous editions.
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Andy Simons
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