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African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many African Americans began to abandon the autonym "Black" and "Afro-American", which had become popular during the Black Power movement of the 1960s, adopting "African American" instead, out of desire for an unabbreviated expression of their African heritage that could not be mistaken or derided as an allusion to the afro hairstyle. |
 | | The collective economic status of African Americans is a matter of contentious debate, with statistics simultaneously suggesting both the residual effects of historical marginalization and sustained progress for large sections of the population in the United States, and the greater affluence of the group when compared to populations outside of the United States. |
 | | White Americans, Indians, other Asians and Arabs are traditionally not considered African American in the United States, though they or their ancestors may have emigrated from the African continent after generations of residence. |
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