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Afro-America

Afro-America proper noun: that part of the United States consisting of people of African heritage.

Proper noun

Afro-America

  1. That part of the United States consisting of people of African heritage.
    • The crisis in Afro-America is threefold. First, the black community is undergoing profound economic crisis which most visibly takes the form of unprecedented levels of unemployment, […]1988, Cornel West, Prophetic Fragments, page 35

Origin of Afro-America

From Afro- + America.

Questions about Afro-America

What does Afro-America mean?
Afro-America means that part of the United States consisting of people of African heritage.
What part of speech is Afro-America?
Afro-America is a proper noun.

Words near Afro-America in the dictionary

  1. Afro combs
  2. Afro pick
  3. Afro picks
  4. afro'd
  5. Afro-
  6. Afro-America
  7. Afro-American
  8. Afro-American Vernacular English
  9. Afro-Americans
  10. Afro-Arab
  11. Afro-Arabs

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