American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term …

Toni Morrison
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American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. ✨ Toni Morrison (2007). Playing in the Dark, p.38, Vintage
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