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    Contemporary African Art

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    Contemporary African Art merges the past with the present and is used as an expression to commonly define the sum of style and the national production of the African continent that is done through the use of contemporary African art. This type of art can be traced all the way back to the Sub-Sahara region within the continent where artist have found a way to combine ancient art forms with creative mediums. You may not be able to recognize the meaning in traditional African art‚ and the contemporary

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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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    the 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

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    African American Religion

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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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    African American Ghettos

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    neighborhood segregation. From 1910 to 1920 there was a large influx of African Americans beginning to move to Northern cities. As more blacks began to fill up Northern

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    In the United States during the 1800s African Americans had a difficult lifetime experience. They had many ups and downs between the three american reconstructive amendments‚ Dred Scott decision‚ and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. African Americans fought a long time trying to gain their equality just like everyone else. One of the main things that is involved with this is the statement “all men are created equal” by Thomas Jefferson. It was clear that this statement was not true. The declaration

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    African American History

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    Prior to the Civil War‚ many African Americans were the minorities. They were not even considered citizens in the United States. During this period African American were slaves‚ working in fields and being servants for the white slave owners. During the year of 1861-1865‚ the union states were fighting the federate states in which the union won and slavery was later abolished. After this period‚ things for African Americans did not change. Blacks were segregated from whites‚ they were still considered

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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

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    The African-American Race

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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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    African Debt Crisis

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    (Global) The debt crisis has spread across Africa in the last decade and the reasons that gave rise to excessive African indebtedness in the 1970s and early 1980s‚ and which caused it to balloon from $140 billion when the crisis emerged in 1982 to over $270 billion in 1990‚ has been amply documented elsewhere.(Revisited) Global apartheid‚ also is one of the reasons that caused African debt crisis. Global apartheid manifests itself in many different ways. Its attributes go beyond racial discrimination

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