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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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    The African-American Race

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    Assignment due April 1‚ 2012 – Eth/125 The African-American race makes up the single largest minority group in the United States. Throughout history African-Americans have fought their way through may prejudice and discriminating acts towards their race. Dealing with slavery in the beginning to being degraded by the “white” man were just some of the things they went through. But even in today’s society African-Americans are at times dealing with racism‚ even though many are well educated men

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    African American Journey

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    from Libson and will arrive in the town of Malindi on the East coast of Africa. I always wondered about the African cultures and life styles. Well we are to arrive at the city tomorrow and I will have a busy day on my hands. September 12th‚ 1525‚ I wake up to a humid and dry day with the sun beating down on decks of the ship. In the distance‚ I can see Malindi‚ a gleaming city out of the African coast line. As the ship is being pulled in‚ I saw the people of the town‚ a lot of them were “black and white”

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    Free African Americans in the Antebellum of America The Antebellum period had a huge impact on the free African American people. The Antebellum period is the time that is pre-Civil War and post-War of 1812. The United States was expanding to a more powerful nation and slavery was the biggest industry in their economy. During this period of time‚ African Americans had to deal with many obstacles/adversities as free blacks in all regions of the United States. The regions known as‚ in the northern

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    battled one of the largest socio-tragedies known to man: racism. While this pestilent issue has affected many ethnic groups‚ the most publicly known is the racial discrimination concerning African Americans. By my reasoning‚ along with many sociologists and psychologists‚ racism is the root cause of African American race socialization. Race socialization is the theory of verbal and non-verbal messages being transmitted to specific ethnic groups for the positive or negative development of behaviors‚

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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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    passengers were transported to the West Indies‚ Brazil or other parts of the new and forming Americas. These people were enslaved Africans‚ and their lives onboard these slaves’ ships were worse than any pain imaginable at the time. During the 1500s‚ Europeans saw enslaved Africans as inexpensive laborers for their colonies. European planters established huge plantations and farming grounds in North America‚ South America and the Caribbean. As the plantations grew‚ more slaves were needed to work on them

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    Stereotypes of African Americans have been around since slavery. Once media got involved it was able to give society a visual as to how other races portrayed them. With television‚ it’s becoming more and more vivid of how bad the stereotyping is getting. Now a day’s some writers of these shows and try to hide the racial remarks‚ while others are blunt with it and receive no type of punishment for their actions. You do have some sitcoms that will shine a positive light on the African American community

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    background. African Americans in particular do not know anything about their background‚ and most of them do not care to know. Now in these modern days it is important to know where one came from‚ and to know their background. Knowing ones history will be a benefit to that person‚ and his or her family because history is a way to success. African Americans are one of the races of people in America that is confused about whom they are. They do not know their background‚ because African Americans think

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    continuing today. American journalists in particular‚ only cover the negatives of Africa while ignoring the countries’ political and economic success stories. This narrative only continues the narratives of Africa’s helplessness. By downplaying African countries abilities to plan and follow through with efforts to develop and improve themselves‚ it harms not only relations between the countries but also diminishes the effectiveness of foreign aid that the West offers to many African countries by putting

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