my general rule is to use the language that the community in question chooses to use to describe itself. As far as "people of color", I have seen people talk about how it makes whiteness normative, but I think it is currently considered to be a more positive description the negative descriptions of "nonwhite", "minority", etc.
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Date: 2009-09-14 07:36 pm (UTC)