The reality is, there is no fixed “preferred” term for any group of people.
The late Justice Scalia said something like “I’m an American, not Italian-American.”
I know black people who still prefer black, while others prefer African-American.
I haven’t heard anyone prefer to be called “colored.” Yet, in Human Resources, the phrase “People of Color” and “Women of Color” is on the ascent. This is a wide net, including people who may be from Taiwan, China, India, South or Central America, or are black.
Even in the LGBT etc arena, it’s a mess. There are gays who don’t want anything to do with trans, and there is now TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminism or feminist, a term used to describe women who oppose trans people).
And now, white people are jumping into the fray. Everyone wants a label or a ribbon to put on their lapel. Oy vey.
Most of the time, if I ask someone what they want to be called, they say Bob or Mary.
where’s race baiter Al Sharpton when you need him?