African-American vs Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom vs African-American

African-American and Uncle Tom both are nouns.

African-American is an adjective but Uncle Tom is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
African-American	Yes	Yes	No	No
Uncle Tom	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Uncle Tom is a hyponym of African-American; that is, Uncle Tom is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than African-American:

African-American: a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
Uncle Tom: (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites

Other hyponyms of African-American include soul brother, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, Negress, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, Tom, Black man, Black woman, darkey, darkie, darky, colored, colored person, coloured, coloured person.

African-American (noun)	Uncle Tom (noun)
a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today	a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
	a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
	(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites

African-American (adjective)	Uncle Tom (adjective)
pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry

Difference between African-American and Uncle Tom

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