Carol Lynn Martin e Richard Fabes, Discovering Child Development, Cengage Learning, 2008, p. 19, ISBN 978-1111808112. URL consultato il 25 ottobre 2014.
«most (but not all) Americans of African descent are grouped racially as Black; however, the term African American refers to an ethnic group, most often to people whose ancestors experienced slavery in the United States (Soberon, 1996). Thus, not all Blacks in the United States are African-American (for example, some are from Haiti and others are from the Caribbean).»