ADADThis style change also prompts the question of how America’s largest racial community should be identified. In American history, many White Europeans who entered the country during times of mass migration were the targets of racial and ethnic discrimination. Separately, we will limit the uppercase version of the racial categorization Brown to direct quotations and use it sparingly in other instances. However, other colors as racial identifiers have not been commonly adopted by members of the ethnic groups they are often used to portray, as many consider the terms insults or slurs. And in crime stories, where cultural and historical identity aren’t key to a suspect’s actions, use the lowercase versions of black, white and brown as race descriptors.

Source: Washington Post July 29, 2020 13:03 UTC