What do you call someone that is black and french?

Answer 1

There are a number of ways to call someone that is black in French, but this is a tricky thing.

'noir / noire' (simply meaning 'black') may be used casually but that is to be used with caution in public speech, as it may sometimes be felt as disparaging.

"de race noire" is often replaced for the same reason, by "d'origine africaine" (of African origin), which is viewed as more neutral.

Youths and young adults (of African heritage or not) tend to use the English adjective "black" instead of any other words, partly because using English words is trendy. This is a safe word to use for any speaker in his thirties or younger.

'Nègre' isn't used any more these days: the word has come to be insulting as the "N-word" in English. This is not a safe word to use, except for French Carribbean creole poets.

Answer 2

The younger French generation (of any ethnicity) use the English term "black", which is seen as less disparaging than "noir" or "de race noire", or "noir africain" towards black people. Older people (45 and over) of black African descent tend to call themselves "africains". French people of Black origin living in the Carribbean also use the name of their island to call thamselves ("guadeloupéen" for inhabitants of the Guadeloupe for instance)

The old french term for a black person was "nègre" which meant 'black' in old French. Today the term is seen as negative and is no more in use, except in rare settings (French black Carribbean literature and French Creole).

The term "nègre" still remains in the language as an equivalent for "ghost-writer".

Answer 3

A black person in France would be called an African Frenchman.