Am i African-American?

Applying to College
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<p>Yeah by race it doesnt mean where you are born, but where your ancestors are born as well. Basically where do you culturally belong. Now Mei you are definitely African-American lol.</p>

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<p>Race basically refers to the color of your skin. Sorry, Mei, but you're definitely Caucasian.</p>

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<p>race has nothing to do with color of skin. If I was born in africa, my parents are dead black, and have I albinism, now I am Caucasian?</p>

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<p>that's obviously a weird exception</p>

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<p>check what you check. you have african heritage so you’re african. i doubt they’ll meet you and say o man, not nearly black enough, give the scholarship to someone else.</p>

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<p>Well, I always check African-American and then U.S. African American. I’ve never given it “this much thought”. My mother is white from Oklahoma and my father is from Africa. Hence African / American. But I’m not from Africa… so I never check Africa.</p>

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<p>Colleges use the census definition of “African American”: “Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as “Black, African Am., or Negro,” or provide written entries such as African American, Afro American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian.”</p>

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<p>This is a really old thread, so I’ll lock it now that Northstarmom has kindly posted the definitive federal definition. In the United States, “African American” on college applications, if you carefully read the definition, ends up being a synonym for “black,” and not all persons from the continent of Africa fit that category, as is made very clear in the definition of the category “white”: </p>

<p>[Black</a> or African American persons, percent, 2000](<a href=“http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68176.htm]Black”>http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68176.htm) </p>

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<p>This thread will now be closed with a redirect to the much more current FAQ thread on race in college admission. </p>

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