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All of these images include "white" somewhere (white background)
Stock photo sites use "Afro/African American" for black people and "Caucasian" for white people, so American + White = (African) American on a white background. They never use "white" for white people or "black" for black people.
So, because of the way that stock photo sites word their image descriptions:
white = white background, completely unrelated to the person
black = black background, completely unrelated to the person
Afro American/African American = Black person
Caucasian = White person
"American" is really likely to give you "African American"