What Classifies African-American Ethnicity?

Dstein64
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:07:26 +0000

This is something that has been bugging me for a while now. First off I am first-generation American. Both my parents,grandparents, and great grandparents all were born and raised in South Africa. With this said I am and look very much white. I realize that African-American== Black, but the reason I have been thinking about this so much is because many I know many who have Hispanic ancestry, all of which are born of America and some of which look white. However all of these people mark Hispanic on their SATs. I am more “African” than these people are “Mexican” however I cannot mark African-America because of the conception that African-American==Black. Is it wrong for me to mark African-American on my SAT? Why is it justified for people of “Hispanic” ancestry who are very much “White” to mark Hispanic, but not right for me to mark African-American?