Statues were present of kings and queens. There were also carvings of servants serving their ruler. The notes on many of the artifacts suggested that the uses for the items were for the chief or ruler. I had a very strong sense that the African culture is hierarchical. Status is extremely important and is shown outwardly by wearing things.
But more often than not these subgroups come out of the choices we make regarding friends and our lifestyle. The social constructs of which blacks in South Africa and African Americans in America are a part, shape their racial identities and attitudes towards race. In the United States of America there are many words used to identify black people. The most commonly used epithet in our country is “African American” (Cave). This phrase has replaced some of the earlier titles that were used to label black people.
Biblically slavery is only referred to in the Old Testament through the story of Ham, but historically slavery was an integral part of ancient commerce, taxation, and temple religion. The story of Noah and Ham has been used to justify racial slavery because Christians and even some Muslims identify Ham’s decedents as black Africans. The concepts of honor and social order were some of the most important points when Southern Christians defended slavery. Black Africans, as decedents of Ham, were seen as lacking honor and deserved to be enslaved. So to keep the social order in line the South had to preserve tradition putting men over women, and whites over blacks.
A Review of Posing Beauty in African American Culture Posing Beauty in African American culture is an exhibition, which is first represented by the Spelman College Museum of Art in the Southeast. This phenomenal exhibition features more than 70 photographs from a variety of photographers—including those working in studios, photojournalists, leading, emerging, and amateur photographers— examine and interrogate notions of beauty and blackness in African American culture from the 1890 to the present. Instead of defining beauty, Posing Beauty portrays the idea of black beauty in many art works—how it is constructed, posed, the daily lives, as well as the media. There are three sections: Constructing a Pose, Body and Image, and Modeling and Beauty Contest. Posing Beauty allows its audiences to think deeper into how African American culture has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts.
This component may be the toughest to grasp due to the abstract nature of the term African American culture. What does that actually mean? Africa is a place of many great and diverse nations to say African American though viewed differently is an very broad term if u look at it as classifying a person from Africa that has migrated to the Americas. A proper term for that would be Nigerian-american or Gahnan-american. The term African-American is more geared to those who are generations removed from the home land but are still heavily influenced by the culture of their ancestors for a lack of a better term the “blacks” of America.
MEDICAL PRACTIONERS SHORTAGE AMONG BLACK-AMERICANS Name: Tony Mwangi Course: Civilization in US Date: 25th November, 2014 Introduction The theme in this article proposes that African Americans are in a unique way skilled in artistic power which may be very important to the development of a nation. According to Locke, BlackAmerican people are more naturally talented with artistic skills compared to Caucasians. He believes that art is glamorous, a luxury. Confronting adversity enables the Black-American artists to tap into a creative circulation of thought and ideas that those who have prior experience cannot artistically compete with.1 Art is an indication of civilizations and race. To the author, spirituals are also inherently parts and
Miriam Barakat Due: 11/20/07 History Essay Slaves in the American Revolution Discrimination against blacks was intense throughout the United States. Owners tormented many slaves’ lives, but many slaves made it through by believing in their religion and in each other. The tormenting began even before the slaves reached the mainland of America. So the history goes way back in times, Americans weren’t the first ones. But in America they did have slavery; they were targeted and hunted down in Africa, their homeland, by their own African people who would capture them and sell them to slave owners in America.
“The contamination was largely due to the incursion into these communities by some majority social scientists, accompanied by black ultraconservative professionals who help pave the way for African-American exploitation” (See, 2007, p. 7). The black experience is an experience difficult to collect data on with the connection to Africa, however See (2007) suggest until social scientist are able to develop accurate information regarding the black experience, researchers should continue using the theoretical strips as a model for examining the behavior of African
Feminist Perspective: Race Relations Racism towards African Americans and other races have been a struggle to overcome and somewhat continues in our country today. Racism starts far back as the early 1600's. Slavery became the form of labor for the white Americans to produce food, cotton,etc. The slave trade provided a lot of wealth to the white Americans in the United States. African people became enslaved; it seems to me like they did not have the power to fight off the white Americans.
Throughout history the African Americans have been discriminated against just because of the color of their skin. The white people controlled them and made them feel as thou they were not equal to white people. The Africans were brought to the United States when the Europeans came to settle the land. Many African people died on the way to the Americans on the boat but still many made their way to be used as slaves. From the time the African people came here they have been fighting to be treated with respect and dignity.