But I self-identify as African American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed and I’m proud of it.

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer, for the African Negroes, brought to the United States as slaves, have crossed in breeding with the dominant White population, as well as with the aboriginal American Indian types with whom they came into contact, so that there is today only a small percentage of the American Negroes who may be considered Negro in the ordinary sense of the term.

Melville J. Herskovits, “The Physical Form and Growth of the American Negro,” Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Volume 4, Number 4 (1927): 293-316.

But I self-identify as African American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed and I’m proud of it.

“I’m an African American,” he said. “But I am somebody, like many African Americans, who has all kinds of stuff in him”…

…“But I self-identify as African American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed and I’m proud of it.” —Barack Obama

Jason Horowitz, “Obama: I’m Not Interested in Talking About Race in the Abstract,” The New York Observer, November 26, 2007. http://observer.com/2007/11/obama-im-not-interested-in-talking-about-race-in-the-abstract

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