AFRIMERICAN: A Member Of A Race Of Humanity, Born In The United States, Ascended From Enslaved Africans, Classified And Characterized According To Physical Features , Such As, Skin Tone, Hair Texture, Skeletal Build, i.e. Nose, Lips, etc...


ETYMOLOGY: American English; August 1989

Created/Defined By: Bruce Ameil Williams

Creation Location: Compton, Ca. / Los Angeles, Ca.

First News Media Use:                                                              Los Angeles Wave Newspaper, "Los Angeles Man Creates New Term  For 'Black' People, "Afrimerican", Published; September 19, 1990.

Official United States Recognition/Acknowledgement:                      November 5, 2005, Claudette Bennett, Chief, Racial Statistics U.S. Census Bureau.

Official States Recognition Confirmation: March 15, 2006, Mr. Charles L. Kincannon, Director, U.S. Census Bureau.

Afrimerican is the first and only original term created that describes and defines persons ascended from enslaved Africans in the United States as United States citizens.

Afrimerican is the only such term that was created by an Afrimerican.


African-Americans and Afrimericans are not the same per legal  United States citizenry. Any internet site, or academic source that identifies both as being the same is engaged in willful disinformation to undermine the originality, autonomy, and validity of the Afrimerican Word and Definition and should be disregarded