http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2011/10/17/questions-from-users-of-the-manual-7/ Official blog of the AMA Manual of Style Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2011/10/17/questions-from-users-of-the-manual-7/#comment-177 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:25:55 +0000 http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/?p=306#comment-177 Regarding the question of black and white in referring to ethnicities, the confusion arises, I think, because African-American and Caucasian are capp’d. It’s my understanding that when anything (ethnic origin, disease name, etc.) includes a proper name — person, place, etc. — it’s capped. (I recently double-checked Caucasian and did find that it originates from the Caucases/sp, so that qualifies as well.)

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