Has anyone heard of a:
* African-Canadian
* Mexican-Canadian
* Irish-Canadian
You get the idea, someone up thread mentioned Jesse Jackson
as founding the hyphenated phrase, I think that’s true, but at
the same time he has changed it several times. Black American
was used for awhile, along with several of the monikers that
failed miserably much like Jesse himself.
I mentioned that Jesse started the African-American thing because Lloyd Marcus used that particular term as an object of criticism. But, yes, Jesse and his type have used numerous terms over the years to the point of making it silly.
African-American seems to be what they’re stuck on now. I don’t think it will stay around, however—too may syllables for American speech.