Synonyms for African-American
ˈæf rɪ kən əˈmɛr ɪ kənafrican-amer·i·can

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1. African-Americanadjective

   American and black.

   Synonyms:
   black, Afro-Usonian, person of color, colored, Negro, Afro-American

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1. African-American, African American, Afro-American, Black Americanadjective

   an American whose ancestors were born in Africa

   Antonyms:
   white

2. African-American, Afro-Americanadjective

   pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry

   "Afro-American culture"; "many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American"

   Antonyms:
   white

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1. List of paraphrases for "african-american":

   afro-american

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1. San Francisco:

   It's the most urgent example of the push-out of the African American population right now during our housing crisis and our affordability crisis.

2. Reginald Ellis:

   It’s important that that’s taught. But what I think is not good is to scapegoat students based on skin color. what I find, even at a historically Black college, the vast majority of students have not really been exposed to much African American history and experience.

3. Lewis Payne:

   I think that having an African-American judge or having a female judge, those are the kinds of things we bring to the bench, and we bring an understanding of a person who may come from that similar background.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   Who denies that African-American youth unemployment, real, is over 50%.

5. Mario Morrow:

   The Black [ candidates ] were splitting the vote and Shri Thanedar was floating a bunch of money on the airwaves, which is a formula for disaster for African American and a formula for victory for African American.