Since the late twentieth century, the number of African and Caribbean ethnic African immigrants have increased in the United States. Together with publicity about the ancestry of President Barack Obama, whose father was from Kenya, some black writers have argued that new terms are needed for recent immigrants. They suggest that the term "African-American" should refer strictly to the descendants of African slaves and free people of color who survived the slavery era in the United States. They argue that grouping together all ethnic Africans regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would deny the lingering effects of slavery within the American slave descendant community. They say recent ethnic African immigrants need to recognize their own unique ancestral backgrounds. COUNT 4
QSN1 The President's father is from what country? ANS1 Kenya QSN2 What community still has some effects of slavery? ANS2 American slave descendant community QSN3 What must Africans who recently immigrated do? ANS3 recognize their own unique ancestral backgrounds QSN4 Who argue for a term other than African American to describe recent immigrants? ANS4 some black writers