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Would an African of American descent be called an American African?
GeoHarvey
Probably not, though the usage is somewhat undefined.
In a combination of terms of this type, the first word (in the case of "American African", this is "American") is usually an adjective and the second ("African") is a noun. In English usage, the first indicates the source ancestry, and the second the place a person is associated with, usually by birth.
So an Irish American is a person born, or at least raised, in the United States, with Irish ancestry. There is variation in what this means, as all US residents seem to be Irish Americans on St. Patrick's Day.
And a French Canadian is a person born in Canada, but of French ancestry.
But an American African would be rather too unspecific, I think. There are many countries in Africa, and I would expect the noun part of the term would refer to a nation, rather than a continent. So a person might be an American Liberian, a Liberian of American descent.
The term African American (note reversed order) is somewhat exceptional, as it implies things that are only evident given a historic context. Most dictionaries define the term as an American of Black African descent, or even an American of sub-Saharan Black African descent. Some African Americans want to go farther, saying that to be truly African American, a person has to be descendant from people who were slaves in the old South, which would make Michelle Obama African American but Barack Obama not. But this is not a universally accepted idea, which, from a linguistic point of view, makes it nonstandard usage.
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