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Revision as of 21:08, 8 April 2004 by 213.156.52.106 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Negro means the color black in Spanish and Portuguese languages, derived from the Latin word niger of the same meaning.
The term negro was formerly used to refer to Sub-Saharan Africans and people with that heritage, such as African Americans. From the 18th century to the mid-20th century it was considered the correct and proper term for African-Americans, but fell out of favor by the 1970s, in the United States. In current English-language usage, the word is generally considered acceptable only in a historical context or in the name of older organizations such as the United Negro College Fund.
In the Italian language, negro was used as a synonim for "coloured" until it became a politically uncorrect word in the 1960's, due to a wider and wider pejorative and racist connotation. Today in Italy using the term negro to refer to a coloured person is considered a trivial and fascist insult.
See also: colored