Name game. (designations for racial groups)

The Christian Century | November 22, 1995| | Copyright

WHAT SHALL I call you? I don't mean you individually but you in groups. Many people derive their identity from the groups they align themselves with, and they care about what they are called. The New Yorker observed the Million Man March on Washington last month and noted what the speakers called themselves and their people(s).

The editors recalled that seven years ago Jesse Jackson produced a "linguistic conniption" by announcing that the term black" was "baseless" and henceforth blacks wanted to be called African-Americans. Those of us who are hung up on hyphens ...

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