You might say it's more similar to specifying a paint color in a hardware store rather than denoting race or ethnicity.
After all, jazz, blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll, et al., were once fairly interchangeable terms, used to denote black or "race" music, until "rock 'n' roll" became specifically the purview of whites, in the late 50s.
But while there can be no question that Obama's election and re-election denote progress in race relations, it does not by a long shot rescind that latent racial hatred that infects the minds of people like Roof, the rogue cops who use black people for target practice or the rampage of black thugs in the inner cities.
People of exclusively British origin who were born in India are also sometimes called Anglo-Indian, but normally it denotes those of mixed race.
In the present study, a big defensin was identified from Venerupis philippinarum haemocytes (denoted as VpBD) by RACE and EST approaches.
The terms Coloured and Black are used to denote groups defined by race classification legislation formerly used in South Africa.
Instead, people said "eastside" and "westside" to denote the old race-restrictive covenant boundary along Main Street, and retained South Central for the whole.
In this study, the terms employed for race and ethnicity denote commonly used sociocultural classifications.
The visible difference that marks race in the United States denotes far more than skin pigmentation or morphological differences.
Implicit racial bias denotes socio-cognitive attitudes towards other-race groups that are exempt from conscious awareness.
12.55pm The midas touch Tony McCoy and Ryan Moore will both be wearing gold breeches in the first race here at Sandown, to denote their status as champions.
