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"People of color" generally means black people, dark-skinned Latinos, and Native Americans. "Colored people" is not used because that was what was used by segr
by asdfaw3f 11y ago
"People of color" generally means black people, dark-skinned Latinos, and Native Americans.
"Colored people" is not used because that was what was used by segregationist whites during Jim Crow (e.g. water fountains labeled "colored").
- vacri 11y ago"People of Color" means "non-whites", so includes pretty much everyone but Europeans. It's used instead of "non-whites" to describe a demographic by an attribute they have, instead of an attribute a different group has.