Problem

I have run into a problem. How do I differentiate illustrations of africans from african americans and other diaspora africans? It might not be possible. Should I change the objectives into study of images of Africa instead of Africans. Africa as a search word would be less problematic. But that could expand the topic too much.

I could still just limit the study to african people but acknowledge as a limitation to the study the overlapping of african and african american illustrations. I could also use the name and description of the illustrations as defining factor. If the name or description uses the word african, without adding “american”, it would be considered part of the study. In this case pictures like these would be ruled out solely based on the wording, though they might be otherwise used to represent also african people:

“Illustration of an african american cartoon girl with dark skin wearing Chef Hat and holding a wire whisk which is a gadget used in baking to mixi cake batches. She is wearing a pastry chef uniform.”

https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-illustration-kitchen-chef-cartoon-illustration-woman-holding-african-american-girl-dark-skin-wearing-hat-wire-whisk-which-image41910098