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| The original race of the earth, the black human. | |||
| '''''Negro''''' means the color ] in both ] and ] languages, being derived from the ] word ''niger'' of the same meaning. | |||
| The term "negro" was formerly used to refer to ]ns and people with that heritage, such as ]s. From the ] to the mid-] "negro" was considered the correct and proper term for African Americans, but fell out of favor by the ] in the ]. In current ] usage, the word is generally considered acceptable only in a historical context or in the name of older organizations such as the ]. | |||
| ] was the last American president to publicly refer to the African American population as ''negroes'' (to which, for much of his life, he gave the ] pronunciation ''nigras'', widely considered an insult by African Americans at the time). | |||
| The related word '']'' was used by ] and early ] ] to refer to a purported ] of people from ]. Both the use of this word and the concept of race associated with it are generally now in disfavor, though the word has not passed completely out of use. | |||
| The word has had a similar history in languages such as ]. Today in Italy using the term ''negro'' to refer to a black person would be considered a trivial and ] insult, suggestive of holding ]. | |||
| In some other places such as ], ''negro'' is used as a common word, usually to refer to friends, or people in general, and does not have much of a racist connotation. | |||
| A specifically female form of the word—''negress''—was sometimes used, but, like many similarly gender-specific words ("Jewess", "poetess", "aviatrix"), and like ''negro'' itself has almost completely passed out of the language: since at least the ] (and perhaps earlier) it has been considered racially and sexually insulting. Much as with '']'' (although to a lesser degree) some individuals have tried "reclaiming" the word. An example of this is artist ]. | |||
| ''See also:'' ] | |||
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The original race of the earth, the black human.