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Marion and her African American husband Ray West were active members of the Christian Friends for Racial Equality in the 1950s and Seattle CORE in the 1960s. Marion was able to purchase a home in the racially restricted University District in the 1950s, but when neighbors discovered that she was married to Ray, and that they would rent the building out to people of color, they were driven from their home by harrasment, including a cross burning.
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Caribbean people speak variants of the standard European languages; these evolved, or Creole, languages uniformly reflect West African speech patterns regardless of whether the spoken language is English, Spanish, French, or Dutch. The French that is spoken in Haiti constitutes a language of its own. In Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire, Papiamento, a blend of Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch, is widely spoken. Nor are these creole languages confined to the poorer, unschooled classes. Creole has now been accorded greater respect in the literature and in the political life of the islands.
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Negroid was a term used by anthropologists first in the 18th century to describe some indigenous Africans and their descendants throughout the African diaspora. As with most descriptors of race based on inconsistent, unscientific phenotypical standards, the term is controversial and imprecise. Growing numbers of blacks have substituted the term Africoid, which, unlike Negroid, encompasses the phenotypes of all indigenous peoples of Africa.[67]
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Negroid is a term used by European anthropologists in the 18th and 19th centries to describe indigenous Africans and their descendants throughout the African diaspora. As with most descriptors of race based on inconsistent, unscientific but politically-motivated phenotypical standards, the term is meaningless. It was not, for instance, used to describe phenotypical similar people living in non-African countries and continents such as India, Indonesia, and Australia, to name a few.
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