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/ˈæfroʊ-əmˈɛrəkən/ Listen

noun

Afro-American n.

An American whose ancestors were born in Africa.

Synonyms: African-American, African.

adjective

Afro-American adj.

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry or their history or culture.

Synonyms: African-American.

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Etymology of 'Afro-American'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Afro-american" Quotes from Famous Books

... activity. Among a brilliant band of these our sisters, conspicuous no less in poetry than in prose, we single out but a solitary name for the double purpose of preserving brevity and of giving in one embodiment the ideal Afro-American woman of letters. The allusion here can scarcely fail to point to Mrs. S. Harper. This lady's philosophical subtlety of reasoning on grave questions finds effective expression in a prose of singular precision and vigour. But it is as a poet that posterity will hail her in the coming ages ...

— West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas • J. J. (John Jacob) Thomas

... and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him. Now for eight years he had been fighting for the party, anywhere, everywhere—whether it was a G.A.R. reunion, or a hotel-keepers' convention, or an Afro-American businessmen's banquet, or a Bible society picnic, Tommy Hinds would manage to get himself invited to explain the relations of Socialism to the subject in hand. After that he would start off upon a tour of his own, ending at some place between New York and ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair