Caucasian American

Caucasian American is a term that is sometimes used in the United States to describe white people who reside in that country. The term may be used interchangeably with European American, White American, and Anglo American. In the United States, Caucasian is frequently used to describe non-Hispanic Europe Americans. According to one social scientist, fewer people have been using the term Caucasian American, and more people have been using the te... more

Caucasian American is a term that is sometimes used in the United States to describe white people who reside in that country. The term may be used interchangeably with European American, White American, and Anglo American. In the United States, Caucasian is frequently used to describe non-Hispanic Europe Americans. According to one social scientist, fewer people have been using the term Caucasian American, and more people have been using the terms White American and European American. Although the term Caucasian is not used in official US government racial tallies, some independent agencies use this term as an ethnic/racial label. The Institute of Food Technologists consider Caucasian to be synonymous with white people, so they use the category White/Caucasian. Many times on forms, people are asked to mark only one ethnic/racial label, preventing someone from marking Caucasian and Asian American or Caucasian and Hispanic. By this definition, Caucasian American includes non... less