BAME

Political Rhetoric, late-1970s

Not white,

In the late 1970s, the Anti-Nazi League (founded by the Socialist Workers Party) coined the term “Black, Asian, and minority ethnic” as a super-category for those who were “politically black”. The term became orthodoxy in the UK Civil Service and appeared on the census. By 1990, it was clear everyone under the label hated it.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=BAME
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=BAME
• http://isj.org.uk/the-anti-nazi-league/
• https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2019/07/08/please-dont-call-me-bame-or-bme/
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038038594028004004