The referent "People of color" is widely used among many African Americans and others as an all encompasing term for people who are not "White".

As to contest being still on for other group referents, maybe. But Black is a short term and as long as White is being used, I'm betting that Black and Brown will be too.

As I believe that I've mentioned before in this thread, I'm no problems with the color references "Black" and "Brown" as long as it is known that they are not strictly discriptive of skin complexion and as long as there are no positive or negative valuations placed upon people who are part of those groupings. {"Brown" here being a referent for Latinos}.

However, I don't like "Red" as in "Redskin" or "Yellow"-as a referent for Asians. Maybe it's because the people who those terms are said to refer to made it known that they find them offensive, while Black and Brown people use these terms proudly as self-referents and group referents.