Shannon presents ideas and viewpoints that help give insight to reasons the Atlantic World formed into what it is now. Atlantic Lives has an immense amount of relevance to the course, The Atlantic World 1600-1800. Atlantic Lives looks at events from Columbus’s discovery of the Americas through the Age of Revolutions. Shannon gathers first hand accounts from different occurrences throughout the Atlantic including Europe, Africa, and the Americas. “The objective of this design is to provide both the skeleton of a narrative overview of the Atlantic World and an introduction to the major topics in the field (Shannon, xi-xii).” Atlantic Lives touches on many aspects of the Atlantic world such as contact between Europeans and natives in the Americas, experiences with African slave trade, the role of gender, and various other areas.
Between 1500-1800 C.E. Sub-Saharan Africa experienced changes and continuity as they began to go further with their foreign relations. Culturally, Africa began to form syncretic cults that had Christian teachings and African traditions. Slavery continued to be one of Africa's main way of showing economic wealth. Africa experienced growth and change in their political organization and the rise and fall of kingdoms and states Before the syncretic cults, Africa's old traditions and beliefs surrounded deities, idols, and multiple gods.
What was the nature of the eighteenth-century reforms in Portuguese and Spanish colonies? As a result in changing European economic and demographic realities, Spain and Portuguese governments worked to strengthen their deteriorating
to 1450 C.E. C/C 2009 - Compare the effects of racial ideologies on North American societies with those on Latin American/ Caribbean societies during the period from 1500 to 1830. CCOT 2008 - Analyze continuities and changes in the commercial life of the Indian Ocean region from 650 C.E. to 1750 C.E. C/C 2008 - Compare the emergence of nation-states in nineteenth-century Latin America with the emergence of nation-states in ONE of the following regions in the twentieth century.
It became a strange world for many of them, but the Europeans as the inferior race took control and developed change throughout the Atlantic World. Race became a mixture, and European religion was spreading all across the Americas and Africa (Benjamin, Hall, & Rutherford, 2001). Much of the Atlantic World would eventually change to fit European societies, which were different and in some cases similar between groups. Women in many cases had similar roles within these interactions, as well as men. Additionally, colonial America spread throughout Atlantic World and in time converted many of these indigenous groups and slaves.
It has now spread through other Caribbean islands, cities in the United States, along with other parts of the world. Followers of the Rastafarian movement are known as Rastafarians. Most recognized by Marcus Garvey, a religious prophet. In the 1930's Jamaicans continued to struggle with post slavery discrimination. At the time of the Rastafarian Movement, Jamaicans began to create their own dialect in attempts to protest the imposed English language.
Being the “melting pot” country, led to many immigrants coming from many different countries, and they bring the sounds with them. During the early stages of America, many immigrants come from Europe and Africa. In the beginning the term “Root music” was used to describe music made by white of European ancestry music, often in the south. As the century progressed, the definition of folk music expanded to include the song styles - particularly the blues - of Southern blacks as well. In general, folk music was viewed as a window into the cultural life of these groups.
Culture is defined by the famous anthropologists Bates and Plog as a “system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of society use to deal cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning”(1976, p6 ). Culture affects everything a person does, including food choices, preparation, and beliefs. Considered a distinct cultural group in the United States, African Americans have kept a strong sense of their culture. This culture is reflected in the cuisine of African Americans. PGPH 1 The roots of African-American cuisine may be traced back to 1619, when the first African slaves were sold in the New World.
Cuba is west of Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), south of Key West, Florida, at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico (Cuban Culture, 2012). Cuban Culture Cuba is known for its cultural diversity, built from Spanish, African, Chinese, North American, and others cultures influences (Cuban Culture, 2013). Cuban culture is rich in parts due to its racial mix that put together traditions, food, religions, music, and sports. The ethnic mix that took place in Cuba from the time of the Spanish colonization when Spaniards mixed with natives of the island and later with black slaves brought from Africa, gave place to a new individual , the mulatto which is known as the offspring of a black and a white individual (Cuban Culture, 2013 ) . Additionally, Cuba is unique for the people that live on this beautiful island.
Tarrell The Harlem Renaissance Intro. The Harlem Renaissance, also called the New Negro Movement, was an artistic, literary, intellectual, and social movement that began after World War I. Today, it is clearly known as a movement that kindled, glorified and showed the world a new black cultural identity and the intellectual capabilities of blacks. At the height of the movement, in the 1920s and 1930s, African Americans expressed themselves through literature, art, music, drama, movies and protests (Bean, Annemarie. 1999).