SOCIOCULTURAL DESIGNATIONS

Capitalization
• Capitalize the name of languages, peoples, races, religions, and political parties.
E.g. Caucasian Chinese Filipino
Methodist Republican
• Color designations of race and ethnicity are usually not capitalized.
E.g. 75-year-old black woman
85-year-old white man
• Sexual preferences or orientation are not capitalized.
E.g. gay heterosexual lesbian
Hypenations
• it is no longer necessary (or preferred) to hyphenate designations of Americans who are identified by their ethnicity, race, or nationality of origin, either in the noun form or the adjectival form.
E.g. elderly Asian American man