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Colored and colored people (or colored folk in the plural sense) are North American terms that were commonly used to describe black people, but also included Asian (brown)/(yellow), or mixeds (brown), and Native American (red). more...

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The term "colored" in particular (along with "Negro") has fallen out of popular usage in the United States over the last third of the 20th century, and is now archaic and potentially derogatory, except in certain narrow circumstances such as the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The term "colored" appeared in North America during the colonial era. A "colored" man halted a runaway carriage that was carrying President John Tyler on March 4, 1844. In 1863, the War Department established the "Bureau of Colored Troops." The first twelve Census counts in the U.S. enumerated "colored" people, who totaled nine million in 1900. The Census counts of 1910-1960 enumerated "negroes."

"Colored" was originally a term for persons of mixed African and Caucasian and/or Native American ancestry. Coloreds and mixed Creoles were sometimes accorded higher status than blacks but were more often considered lesser than people of either separate ancestry. Later, "colored" was used to refer to all blacks, due to the difficulty involved in maintaining these distinctions.

People of color

It is difficult to discuss this term without the discussions of power and privilege. This term has very different meanings in different countries and contexts. Some find this term as offensive as the term "colored", on the grounds that it fixes whites as the benchmark for racial division, fostering an allegedly "us-versus-them" view of race relations. Proponents of the term maintain that it must be realistically acknowledged that those who have power and benefits from racial privilege in a racist society is primarily white, and that the term "person of color" is a better generic term for those who are racially underprivileged than "black person" as it includes ethnicities other than those strictly of African descent. This may include Chicano/Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, Arab and many indigenous groups that also experience racism.

The historical term free people of color refers to people of African descent during slavery who lived in freedom. A related term from the time of slavery is gens de couleur, a French expression that refers to the free descendants of white French colonists and Africans. Because so many of these people had mixed African and European ancestry, they are sometimes labeled mulatto. They are also sometimes referred to as affranchis.

Some struggle to identify with the term, arguing the word "color" merely refers to level of skin melanin, and so fails to define correctly those who aren't noticeably non-white, or whose racial background includes both races of white and non-white.