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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
Ida B. Wells

Meaning of "Afro-American" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFRO-AMERICAN

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Afro-American can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES AFRO-AMERICAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Afro-American

African American

African Americans, also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are citizens of the United States who have total or partial antebellum ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest racial and ethnic minority in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved blacks within the boundaries of the present United States. However, some immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American, and South American nations, and their descendants, may be identified or self-identify with the term. African-American history starts in the 16th century, with Africans forcibly taken to Spanish and English colonies in North America as slaves. After the founding of the United States, black people continued to be enslaved and treated as inferiors. These circumstances were changed by Reconstruction, development of the black community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United States, the elimination of racial segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFRO-AMERICAN

Africanisation
Africanise
Africanism
Africanist
Africanization
Africanize
Afrikaans
Afrikander
Afrikaner
Afrikanerdom
afrit
Afro
Afro-Asian
Afro-Asiatic
Afro-British
Afro-Caribbean
Afro-chain
Afro-comb
Afro-Cuban
Afro-pessimism

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFRO-AMERICAN

African
African-American
all-American
American
Anglo-American
Asian-American
Central American
Early American
East African
Latin American
Mexican
Native American
North African
North American
Pan-American
pro-American
South African
South American
Spanish-American
un-American
West African

Synonyms and antonyms of Afro-American in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Afro-American» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN

Find out the translation of Afro-American to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Afro-American from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Afro-American» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

美国黑人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Afro - Americano
570 millions of speakers

English

Afro-American
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अफ्रीकी मूल के अमेरिकी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأفرو أمريكية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Афро - американский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Afro -americano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আফ্রো আমেরিকান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Afro - américain
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Afro-Amerika
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Afro -amerikanische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アフリカ系アメリカ人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아프리카 계 미국인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Afro-Amerika
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Người Mỹ gốc Phi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆப்பிரிக்க-அமெரிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आफ्रो-अमेरिकन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Afro Amerikalı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Afro - americano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Afro-Amerykanin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Афро - американський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Afro - american
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Αφρο - Αμερικανός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Afro- Amerikaanse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Afro -American
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Afroamerikansk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Afro-American

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFRO-AMERICAN»

The term «Afro-American» is regularly used and occupies the 87.200 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AFRO-AMERICAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Afro-American

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7 QUOTES WITH «AFRO-AMERICAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Afro-American.
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Donald Byrd
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
2
Alexis Korner
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
3
Ida B. Wells
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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Ida B. Wells
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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Ida B. Wells
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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Ida B. Wells
The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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Ida B. Wells
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFRO-AMERICAN»

Discover the use of Afro-American in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Afro-American and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk ...
A critical reconstruction of African-American folk thought in the United States between the 1840s and 1950, defining the main features of preemancipated slave thought and the effects of freedom upon that thought.
Lawrence W. Levine, 2007
2
Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
This book reveals how five distinct African civilizations have shaped the specific cultures of their New World descendants. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Robert Farris Thompson, 2010
3
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
The acclaimed guide to American slavery, now available to students as well as scholars.
Randall M. Miller, John David Smith, 1997
4
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular ...
Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level.
Houston A. Baker, Jr., 2013
5
The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts
Included in the examples are works from the Charleston and Old Slave Mart museums and the ironwork of Philip Simmons.
John Michael Vlach, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978
6
To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American ...
To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of black America's most innovative literary tradition--the autobiography--from its beginnings to the end of the slavery era.
William L. Andrews, 1988
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Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black ...
This is also Baker's most personal book, tracing his beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his 'second birth' as he began teaching African American Literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic.
Houston A. Baker, 1996
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The Work of the Afro-American Woman
Part intellectual history, part advice book, and part polemic, this collection of original essays and poetry is a defence and celebration of the achievements - moral, material, intellectual, and artistic - of black women in Victorian ...
Mrs. N. F. Mossell, 1988
9
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American ...
Describes the lives of Blacks in colonial New England, discusses the influence of African culture on their communities, and explains how they developed their own way of life.
William Dillon Piersen, 1988
10
Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary ...
In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provides readers with a new understanding of the African American experience based largely on his own political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own life's experiences.
Cornel West, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFRO-AMERICAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Afro-American is used in the context of the following news items.
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America Wins Women's World Cup Title—Defeats Japan 5-2
Afro American ... AFRO-American Newspapers · The Atlanta Voice · The Chicago Citizen · The ... 2014 THE AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. «Afro American, Jul 15»
2
Pittsburgh singer Lee spreads love through music, charitable works
... American music camp for at-risk children with Sean Jones, the noted trumpet player and educator, and Johnson of the Afro-American Institute ... «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
3
Sunday Sound Offs
It's disgusting to hear anyone using the N-word, but to hear one Afro-American to another Afro-American using it is just as or more disgusting. «Troy Record, Jul 15»
4
4th of July parade celebrates trees, performers
Cheerleaders for the Fellowship of Afro-American Men (FAAM) Youth basketball league displayed their team spirit. Representatives of the ... «Evanston Now, Jul 15»
5
Fireworks and festivals rule this weekend throughout northeast Ohio
Incoroprated in 1960 as the Afro-American Cultural and Historical Society, our museum is one of the oldest museums of its kind in the United ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
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AAMI Boys Choir celebrates 25 years of making sweet music
Derrick Germany knew he was a part of something special when he was recruited into the Afro-American Music Institute's newly- formed Boys ... «New Pittsburgh Courier, Jul 15»
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Sunday Conversation with Rianni Tyes
... she travels to Philadelphia and competes at the NAACP Afro-American, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics culinary competition. «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»
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Soul sounds: Leon Bridges, Jack DeJohnette, Miguel and a …
His mix of Latin and Afro-American is both a barrier ("too proper for the black kids/too black for the Mexicans … I never feel like I belong") and a ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
9
Adam Shatz remembers Ornette Coleman
But Coleman never lost sight, even in his most challenging music, of blues and swing, the fundamentals of Afro-American jazz. Coleman's ... «London Review of Books, Jul 15»
10
Star of the Republic Museum to Host African American Genealogy …
Members of the Willie Lee Gay H-Town Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS) will lead the workshop. «KBTX, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Afro-American [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/afro-american>. Apr 2024 ».
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