American Black

American Black refers to African Americans or Black people in the United States, used as a descriptor of a demographic group. The term appears in discussions of racial dynamics such as prison overrepresentation, slavery, and civil-rights struggles.

Claims that use this term

• American Black prison overrepresentation actually lags the average subordinate-rate across OECD
• Barbary analogies failed to sway abolition of American Black slavery
• Du Bois linked Russian peasant revolution to American Black struggle without orthodox Marxism