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Afro-|ˈæfrəʊ|
used as comb. form of L. Afer, Afr- African, as in Afro-American (also Aframerican) adj. and n., (a person) of African descent born in America (spec. the United States); Afro-Aryan adj., African and Aryan; Afro-Asian adj., of or pertaining to both Africa and Asia; also n.; similarly also, Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Cuban, Afro-European, Afro-Spanish, adjs. and ns.
1853Voice of Fugitive (Windsor, Ont.) 21 June 2/4 In our opinion, the true policy of the *Afro-American race..is to emigrate to Canada, the West Indies. 1890Advance 23 Jan. 61/2 To encourage all State and local leagues..in obtaining for the Afro-American an equal chance. Ibid. 80/1 The Afro-American Convention in Chicago. 1898Westm. Gaz. 31 May 3/1 She is a New Orleans Creole, her mother being an Afro-American, and her father a Louisiana Frenchman. 1910H. H. Johnston Negro in New World 390 In music the Aframerican..may achieve triumphs. 1934C. 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. 1939W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Mus. 29 Afro-Americans have been the chief rhythmic originators in the forty-year spread of both ragtime and jazz. 1944H. L. Mencken in Amer. Speech XIX. 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.
1914Lancet 4 Apr. 966/2 An *Afro-Aryan child aged 3 years, the offspring of a male African negro and a female Cingalese.
1955Newsweek 17 Jan. 14/1 The critical issue at the 30-nation *Afro-Asian conference here in April..will be a behind-scenes struggle for power between India's Nehru and Red China's Chou En-lai. 1956Ann. Reg. 1955 165 The Afro-Asian conference..at Bandung..was attended by Ministers of twenty-nine states, from Liberia to Japan, but not including Soviet Asia. 1958Observer 6 July 12/6 More immediate fears tend to overshadow the long-term political value of wooing the Afro-Asians.
1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets 346 This disc is one of an *Afro-Brazilian collection. 1963Times 12 June 16/6 Heitor dos Praeres..is an expert on Afro-Brazilian folklore. 1976Wilson Q. Autumn 89 Afro-Brazilians represent roughly 40 percent of the total population. 1984Christian Science Monitor 5 Sept. 9/4 Afro-Brazilian cults are making inroads.
1958Oxf. Mail 14 Feb. 9/6 Lessons in *Afro-Caribbean dancing..for..members of the Oxford University Ballet Club. 1959Encounter Dec. 53/1 In the bad old days, when..the Afro-Caribbeans had little but humiliation.
1949L. Feather Inside Be-bop vi. 41 George Russell..penned an *Afro-Cuban drums suite. 1956M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xix. 252 Perhaps the most stable pattern..was established by Machito and his Afro-Cubans.
1895A. H. Keane Ethnology xiv. 409 The original Aryan type..resembled that of the *Afro-European as represented by the Mauritanian Berbers. 1959Listener 5 Nov. 791/2 He has the same right to talk of the land in which he has grown up as any other Afro-European.
1946Jazz Writings 3/2 Spanish American rhythms in the blues (such as the rhythm of the *Afro-Spanish ‘habanera’, created in Havana, Cuba). |