Talk:Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

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"African-American spiritual"[edit]

Really? This is one of those instances of naive political correctness where using the PC term actually destroys the meaning of what is being said. "African-Americans" are American citizens who are "of African ancestry". The entire point about Negro spirituals is that these people were not citizens, American or otherwise, they were slaves. It's the sad historical reality, and also what gave rise to this genre in the first place. Calling them "African-American spirituals" in retrospect is not only funny, I think it is even being a little flippant about the plight these people were in. --dab (𒁳) 13:26, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind if you change it - I wasn't sure (and didn't check) what WP:MOS says, if anything. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:43, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that that change is appropriate in this case, but I wouldn't just laugh off the usage of "African American spiritual" as naive or call it flippant. We don't have an article titled Military history of Negroes in the American Civil War either, nor do we categorize "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" as race music anymore, even though that term provides historical context just like "Negro spirituals" does. I do think it is appropriate to change it here, albeit because of the body of scholarly work, including contemporary scholarly work, using this term, not because I'm afraid of being overly PC (and note that the term "African American spiritual" can be found in modern scholarly work too). ---Sluzzelin talk 15:09, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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