HIS 204: American History Since 1865
Instructor: Corinne O’Connor
Dec 29, 2014
The American Frontier Black Americans
Myths, around the world to many people are not a, social reality, under grinds the assumption and perception. To help overcome countervailing divisive forces countries and people utilize myths to help bind them together. Myths also help the wounds of wartime losses and many other disasters. Robert G Anthearn (1986) and Gerald D Nash (1991) have probed the world’s fascination with mythology of the American West. ( Slatta, 2010).
Although at one point in time Black history seemed ‘Lost, Stolen, or Strayed”, however much of the African American past has been reanalyzed and rediscovered. Unfortunately, High Schools, students and many others have not gotten any of this new research and many still base their thinking on information that existed in 1986. When CBS produced Black History film Lost, stolen, strayed some of the History films were more than 30 years old; W.E.B. Dubois wrote history of the African slave trade in 1869, and Black Reconstruction in 1935. (Ruffins, 2007).
The most comparable and most mythologized region of the United States stand South and West, even while the competition is fierce ( Emmons 1994;138-43). While slavery in defense, white Southerners created a mythical antebellum past of moonlight and magnolias’. Docile, loyal, but Black uncivilized slaves labored for benevolent planted that were white and only cared for the needs of these inferior beings. Both new their respective positions, both lived happy in general harmony (Davenport 1970; Gester and Cords 1989; Wilson 1994).
Nearly over 500 years of African American History presents some myths and misconceptions that distort and simplify Blacks some of the issues. For Example, destroyed during slavery were black families. Even though this is outdated perspective in the early 1900’s known by the Dunning School was a group of racist
References: Slatta, RW (2010). Making and Unmaking Myths of the American Frontier. North Carolina States University. Retrieved from Ashford University Library Ruffins, P (2007) ten Myths, Half Truths and Misunderstanding about Black History. Retrieved by diverseeducation.com/article/7469