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    Throughout history African Americans have been discriminated‚ and to this day are treated horrible. It has gotten better over the years so much so that they can do the same things everyone else can. This wasn’t always the case especially in the 1800’s. Even though this was the case many were able to use art to feel free. Many of them used art to spread a message of their social division. This was so people would understand their social‚ economic and political inequality. Many African American were seen

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    The African American race just as the name suggests were originally from Africa. They have had struggles throughout their live in the United States.  When we talk about their culture‚ what that basically means is the kind of perhaps new ways of living that they have brought in the United States.  A lot of scholarship for decades has emerged and this is in relation to the African-American people. Slavery and slave trade is the major and beyond a shadow of a doubt the main cause why African Americans

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    violence is different from many others‚ because as the passage says‚ the Native Americans were curious and friendly to strangers. They did not create any conflict and the Spaniards saw that as a weakness. Columbus and his men used violence to make the Native Americans into to their servants. This mindset continued with the Spaniards and the treatment of the Native Americans. Howard Zinn writes‚ " The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted

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    African American Religion Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Misty Ricard Before Africans were brought to America during the slave trade‚ they had their own culture and society. They had their own language and dance.  They also had their own religion.  History tells us that the Europeans justified their abuse toward the Africans as helping them become more civilized because the Africans lifestyle appeared primal to them and not as developed and industrialized as theirs. What

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    Tina V. Young ENG 550 Dr. Kimmie Knuckles October 18‚ 2012 Introduction African American Vernacular English‚ which is also known as the African American Language‚ Black Vernacular‚ Black Vernacular English‚ or simply Black English has been defined as an African American variety dialect (a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology‚ grammar‚ and vocabulary‚ and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically

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    paleness of one’s skin determined success minorities‚ especially African-Americans‚ seldom have the opportunity to prosper in the industries of today‚ such as Hollywood. Hollywood has grown into a pivotal commodity of the human society that not only entertains us as audiences‚ but shapes our beliefs and views as well. Hollywood racism‚ despite the denial of its existence‚ presets itself through the underrepresentation of African-American talent as well as the repeated recognition of said figures solely

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    Freedom African American culture is to be defined as language‚ music‚ religion‚ food‚ dance and art. Black culture is the roots of a black brother and a black sister. Black Culture is literature. Frederick Douglass an African American narrator and author of the novel Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass define black culture through his writings from being born as a slave to being a free man. Although Douglass’s life was a life of a struggling slave and experience James Olney’s 12 points

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    The History of African Americans HIS204: American History Since 1865 Instructor: Steven Harn 04/29/2013 Jewish people had the horrific era ordeal of the Holocaust‚ Native Americans had to deal with the displacement of their people which lead to death‚ starvation and exposure to diseases while in en route to other locations. However one could suggest that African Americans had an extremely rough time‚ and till this day continue to have a rough time fighting for equality in all things. This

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    Understanding the struggles that the people behind the African-American Museum of Philadelphia‚ the DuSable Museum of African-American history in Chicago‚ the International Afro-American Museum in Detroit‚ and the Anacosta Neighborhood Museum in Washington D.C is the core of Andrea Burns’ work. Financial‚ cultural‚ and political difficulties all went into the creation of these museums. These people did not want just to be included as a part of larger museums‚ but‚ Philadelphia being a prime example

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    African-American History

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    African-American history is the part of American history that particularly talks about the African-American or Black American cultural gatherings in the United States. Most African Americans are the relatives of black African slaves persuasively bring to and detained hostage in the United States from 1555 to 1865 (Franklin‚ V. P. 1992). Blacks from the Caribbean whose progenitors immigrated‚ or who immigrated to the U.S.‚ additionally customarily have been viewed as African-American‚ as they divide

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