ling that has been done in American history has involved the use of abusive and racist stereotypes. The largest non-white group in America is black, and this group in particular has been abused by racial terms and stereotypes. This group also constitutes the only group of people whose ancestors were brought to this country by force and placed in slavery, and this makes the issue of labeling even more sensitive. The accepted term was "colored people" in competition with "Negro." "Negro" later emerged as the preferred term, btu this fell into disfavor in the 1960s when a new generation associated the term with slavery and sought to distance themselves from that institution with the new term "African American," seen as a more neutral term that better defined the nature of these people based on their ancestr
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