Wednesday, November 12, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Use of racial term ambiguous
By Ryan Koerner
rkoerner@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Ryan Koerner
According to "The American Heritage Dictionary," the term African-American, in contemporary usage, has a connotative meaning synonymous with the proper adjective Black, used to refer to people of dark skin color.
Publications that adhere to the guidelines of The Associated Press, such as "The University Daily Kansan," agree to use African-American as a practice of consistency.
Newspapers and other mass media did not coin the term but continue to use it as a label for what one student at the University of Kansas said should be referred to as Negroid.
Negroid is an anthropological term denoting people of black skin, not including East Asian Indians or aboriginal people of Australia, said Gardner Umbarger, Lawrence graduate student who received his undergraduate degree in anthropology.
"I'm just confused about the whole process and what is the appropriate term, especially with journalists," Umbarger said. "I don't know where it all came about. It seems confusing to me, being a former anthropologist, that we slab between these terms."
Umbarger said he knew the usage of Negroid would not please many people because society had gotten away from the word's definitive meaning.
"African-American is a big jingle word," Umburger said. "These words are currently in vogue, and I have to use them, but I know they aren't being used properly."
Donald Stull, chairman of the department of anthropology, said it was difficult to determine which term. Negroid or African-American, was correct.
Neither term always would be acceptable for journalists or anthropologists. Stull said.
"Negroid was used for a so-called racial group at one point, but African-American is probably the most acceptable at this point in time," Stull
said. "Just like Caucasian was used for what today would be referred to as Anglo-American."
The terms serve as labels change through time for journalists as well, said Samuel Adams, associate professor of journalism. Adams, who teaches a media and minorities class, said African-American was used by journalists for consistency, not to be politically correct.
"Black and African-American have become interchangeable." Adams said. "A particular newspaper will determine to have a policy one way or the other. Often policies are decided without the inclusion of the group who is being identified. In the end, the terms come from sensitivity of people."
Dion Jones, St. Croix, Virgin Islands junior, said coverage of minorities was more important than the terms used.
"Some African Americans prefer Black, some prefer African-American," Jones said. "What someone else calls you isn't a factor at all."
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