A Note on Terms and Concepts

Shakes, Nicosia

doi:10.5622/illinois/9780252045233.002.0008

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A Note on Terms and Concepts

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August 2023

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Given some of the misunderstandings around racial, ethnic, gender, and other terminologies, I define here how I apply them in this book. I use the terms Africana, African, African Diasporic, and people of African descent to refer to people with unambiguous sociohistorical and racial origins in Africa. I often use these terms interchangeably with Black, except when it is necessary to underscore geographic distinctions over racial ones. People of color is an umbrella term for those who belong to the majority of the racial groups in the world and are not phenotypically European, particularly in the North American context, in which the term was popularized. Coloured is a racial-ethnic category that emerged under apartheid in South Africa to classify mixed-race and some South Asian–descended people. It is still used today, though many who formerly would have been categorized as coloured self-identify as Black or mixed. It should not be confused with the archaic word colored, employed to describe Black people in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and I retain the u in coloured to indicate this distinction. With regard to regional-cultural designations, the terms Global South and Global Majority refer to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, and the Pacific, the Indigenous and Aboriginal nations of the Americas and Oceania, and their descendants. Depending on the context of the discussion, the terms Western and Global North may refer broadly to the relatively wealthy countries of Europe, Australasia, and North America, or more precisely to their white populations and academic knowledge systems.

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