Afro-Americanadj.n.

1831 Missionary Reg. Mar. 158/1 The Rev. G. M. Erskine has soon departed from his labours: he was an intelligent Minister, of Afro-American extraction.

1853 Voice of Fugitive (Windsor, Canada) 21 June 2/4 In our opinion, the true policy of the Afro-American race..is to emigrate to Canada, the West Indies.

1890 Advance 23 Jan. 80/1 The Afro-American Convention in Chicago.

1911 J. E. C. Hayford Ethiopia Unbound xvi. 164 In the Afro-American school of thought the black man is seeking intellectually and materially to show himself a man along the lines of progress of the white man.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 201 By jazz..I mean the whole movement roughly designated as such, and not merely that section of it known as Afro-American.

1944 H. L. Mencken in Amer. Speech 19 161 When the New York Times announced in an editorial on March 7, 1930, that it would capitalize the word Negro thereafter, there were loud hosannahs from the Aframerican intelligentsia.

1959 J. Prebble Buffalo Soldiers (1964) 81 The Afro-American troopers of the Tenth will probably have done most of the hard work.

1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men xxiii. 182 The controversial Irish boxer whose comments last week angered the Afro-American community apologized for his words.

2008 New Yorker 19 May 62/2 He expounded a cosmic philosophy influenced by ancient Egyptian cosmology, Afro-American folklore, and Madame Blavatsky.

1833 T. Hodgkin Inquiry Merits Amer. Colonization Soc. 53 Already it has sent back the elevated Afro-American to receive kindness and courtesy and honourable distinction.

1839 Times 3 Oct. 2/5 There is no occasion for the American Slavocracy, or their venial serviles, to jeer at Mr. O'Connell's proposition for the establishment of a refuge colony for oppressed Afro-Americans.

1855 De Bow's Rev. Oct. 372 In all the intercourse of the Afro-Americans with the natives, the mental and physical superiority of the former has been most signally established.

1890 Advance 23 Jan. 61/2 To encourage all State and local leagues..in obtaining for the Afro-American an equal chance.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 3/1 She is a New Orleans Creole, her mother being an Afro-American, and her father a Louisiana Frenchman.

1910 H. H. Johnston Negro in New World 390 In music the Aframerican..may achieve triumphs.

1939 W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Music 29 Afro-Americans have been the chief rhythmic originators in the forty-year spread of both ragtime and jazz.

1986 New Statesman 10 Oct. 29/3 Playing jazz was one of the few paths away from manual labour then available to Afro-Americans.

1995 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 14 Oct. 4 e White students have no respect for Aframericans because they have not been taught anything about their history in the U.S. except blacks were slaves, Lincoln freed them and Martin Luther King had a dream.

2007 Jet 3 Sept. 30/1 I think that a lot of Afro-Americans have a limited notion of what Black is around the world. They don't really realize that there are a lot of Black people in the Caribbean, [etc.].