1 Afro-Americans account for 12% of the US population.

2 Yes, I decided that Tara would be Afro-American.

3 His friend is an afro-American.

4 Afro-American music is divided into music of religious adoration and music of common customs.

5 Toni Morrison, an Afro-American female writer, always keeps her ethnicity in literary creation, continually exploring and developing distinguished African cultural traditions.

6 Afro-American women writers have rewritten the marginal fate of black women literature and literary criticism by employing the advantages of black racial and cultural marginality .

7 Tony Morrison is the first Afro-American woman writer who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature .

8 It is the combination of the Afro-American tradition and the Euro-American literary practice that gives Beloved inexhaustible glamour.

9 Jean Wanger's most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poesy is his insistence that it be analyzed in a religious, as well as worldly, frame of reference.

10 While various factors should be responsible for the tragedies of the Afro-American people, racist prejudice or the double oppression of racism and sexism are the root causes.

11 One of the artists there told me that his paintings, while included African and Afro-American mythological symbols and imagery, were hanging in the local McDonald's restaurant.

12 It means to do some sort of damage and the OED claims it's from Afro-American origins.

13 Paradise, the latest novel by the black woman writer Toni Morrison, marks another striking advance of this Afro-American master's literary speculations.

14 It is considered one of the most African of all Afro-American religious blends.

15 When it was first played on the radio and in clubs,[] many fans mistook Madonna for an Afro-American disco diva.

16 Unfortunately, as the flap over the New Yorker cover shows, he feels his hard - fought journey to running without the baggage of being Afro-American with a foreign - sounding name is far from over.

17 The home of jazz music, New Orleans is a blend of the Spanish and French culture with influences from Afro-American and the Carribbean.

18 One of the artists there told me that his paintings, which included African and Afro-American mythological symbols and imagery, were hanging in the local McDonald's restaurant.

19 The father-son relation was one of the important themes in James Baldwin's works, and many of his works presented the great contemporary Afro-American writer's craving for an ideal black father.

20 He specializes in American literature, African-American culture from 1940 to 1960, Afro-American autobiography, nonfiction prose, and popular culture.

21 The third chapter is the education and employment of the afro-american, which discusses mostly the changes of the black women in education and employment since the Civil Rights Movement.

22 Have you a "new freedom" for white Americans and a new slavery for your Afro-American fellow citizens?