[cowboyhater]

I have an adopted daughter who is African-American. I have figured it this way: her ethnicity is African-American and her race is black (after all, there are black people in Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, and Europe; we can't call THEM African-Ameican). If for some reason it comes up (and it rarely does), I usually default to the ethnic, rather than racial designation. Though it doesn't matter that much.