Through significant research on the different foods, languages, and holiday traditions of these cultures, I hope to enhance my understanding of these cultures. With this enhanced knowledge I intend to be able to provide an open educational environment based on acceptance, equality, and sensitivity to all cultures, where all students can feel safe, understood and excited about their educational experience. The African American Culture The African American culture also referred to as Black American and Afro American, has been building their rich cultural history since the 1600's. Their cultural roots started in the Saharan and Sahelean regions of Africa and quickly spread through various countries, however American slavery laws prohibited African American descendents to observe their cultural traditions and lifestyles within the United Sates (Banks, 1990). After the abolishment of slavery in
African Americans have the power to succeed in the classroom on their own determination. Not only do they succeed in the classroom, but it also helps them learn acceptance and tolerance for people different from themselves which will play a role in higher education and the workplace. In today’s society African Americans are employed and owners in diverse careers. Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there were only certain jobs that African Americans were allowed to work. Many Caucasian Americans believed a completely fallacious myth
The role of freed blacks became that of creating a community through self-determination. This community consisted of citizenship, freedom form white supremacy, and political social gatherings such as, controlled churches led by black ministers. Although, freed blacks were able to build communities, their Civil Rights were limited. Within the South, Southern Democrats limited the rights of freed blacks by using methods such as “Black Codes”. This method was used as a way to deny many rights of citizenship to freed black people.
However, that didn’t stop the slaves from finding other instruments to play or continuing the handclapping or foot stomping. Quite the contrary, the music became an essential part of their well being as they were enduring and come to endure more hardships at the hands of their slave masters. African music influenced the slave’s songs in the new world like Africa; slave songs reflected the African religious beliefs. The slaves believed in a higher power and
To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color. People treated them badly only because they had a darker skin color, forgetting that that we are all humans and the color of our skins an where we come from doesn’t indicate our personalities and beliefs. Black in America suffered a lot for reason of racism and went through the hard ships and difficulties
Karenga says that us as Black people need to acquire this knowledge not just for knowledge sake, but for human sake. The knowledge African Americans could gain through Black Studies would be the key to taking all of this oppression we have endured for hundreds of years in America and turning it into success and prosperity for the community. The knowledge we learn must be taken back to the communities and shared with the masses that need it most. According to Karenga, and history, we are the fathers and mothers of humanity and human civilization and by understanding Black Studies, we are contributing to the full understanding of humanity itself. In an
Cultural Background Paper Soc/100 November 30, 2010 Twyler Earl Cultural Background Several diverse immigrants from every part of the world migrated to America. Many gathered together in groups of the same ethnicity, some gathered together with the same common class and others wanted to be free from the troubles in their current social class. All ethnicities came to America in hope to live a better and free life. Presently, there are several different cultures in America today, such as the African American also known as Black American culture, which are the cultures that will I explain thus far. Norms African Americans are very family oriented and spiritual, yet many are Christians and some are Muslims.
Even when it came to more accomplished African diplomats, they too were mistreated simply due to the color of their skin. Maltreatment occurred across the United States, as people of African descent were rejected from restaurants, social clubs and decent housing was denied (Romano, 2000, P.551-552). This mix of injustice begin to create a melting pot of frustrations and civil unrest. At the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement were two
There is no doubt that life was tough for the Blacks at this time, they faced racial discrimination brought upon them by the Jim Crow laws while slavery had already been abolished, Black people of America still had no easy life, they were mostly found in low paying labor intensive jobs and their were not many opportunities for them to gain a solid education and find high paying job opportunities. In Richards’s early life he faced great turmoil and a lot of instability, his father leaving him at a young age initiated this and then his mother falling greatly sick, poverty hit the Wright family hard. An example of how tough times were for Richard is a passage from the text that is a reflection from Richards’s adult self. “Within three years of the fire, Wright found himself in an orphanage, and the adult Wright remembers that ”Dread and distrust had already become a daily part of my being” This passage refers to the 3 years since Richard burnt down his house and how his life was never the same, the words Dread and distrust had become a part of my daily life shows how
From racial profiling to other issues such as affirmative action, police brutality against minorities and the history of slavery and the rising resentment against immigrants.” (Anup Shah 1998) I think this really does suit racism in the United States. Yes it has come a long way from what it used to be like but we still have problems just like this all over the world. Way back in the day American people didn’t have much racism towards them but Americans were very racist towards everyone who was not American. They had all sorts of racial groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, save our state, and gay groups. These groups of hate have died down over the years but there are still a few out