Cultural Assessment and Analysis: The African American Culture Abstract In order to provide culturally appropriate care‚ an examination of one’s personal views‚ beliefs‚ and prejudices must be examined. The first portion of this paper will examine my personal values‚ beliefs‚ biases‚ and prejudices. The remaining paper will analyze the African American culture relating to the Ginger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Assessment Model cited in Hood (2010). This model uses six key cultural
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against African Americans because of their color of skin and ancestry. Activists of the black freedom struggle questioned citizenship because they couldn’t express the same rights as everyone else. “Your freedom ends when my freedom begins.” Freedom is a paradox‚ a vital paradox. As we can see‚ there are limitations to what we can do as determined by the freedom of others including the state. However‚ states can be abusive and interfere with basic freedoms like civil and human rights. African Americans
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Dance Revolution and the rise of women in the work force on the cusp‚ women in particular began to shed the traditional ideas of courtship and modesty. The 1920’s song “Sweet mama tree top tall; Wont you kindly turn your damper down” tells of an African American woman that is representative of the women of this time period. This song utilized a black woman to both appeal to the free-spirited figure that women craved to be‚ but also to alert them to stay in line for the men. The main lyric of the song
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To firmly grasp the underling influences that shape present-day social culture‚ especially in a country as diverse as America‚ social scientists endeavor to examine the real‚ un-retouched‚ and raw American Narrative from many different angles. What they then realize is that America is the sum of a significant amount of smaller‚ much more intricate‚ parts that can’t be easily taken apart for closer inspection without losing the elaborate levels of complexities that are tied to understanding the experiences
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back then in 1900’s for African Americans wasn’t easy at all. Dealing with slavery the African Americans had gotten the chance to enlist in the military as some of them did‚ they had thought that by doing so maybe on their return home and by doing right by fighting they would be looked upon as soldiers instead of slaves. “It was seen that though the African Americans comprised just 10 percent of the US population‚ 13 percent of the inductees were blacks.” The African Americans knew that enlisting the
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amount of slaves were seemingly unlikely. The African Americans were segregated and determined as free or enslaved. The Atlantic Slave Trade was setup to be a successful business in the 18th century ‚ it sent slaves to southern states that specialized in agriculture. Slavery in the North was also legal and accepted as well. However‚ some colonies did allow free African Americans. Even though they had their freedom‚ rights of these African Americans were still confined. Black Codes consisted of stipulations
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Jakaya McCambry 10/02/12 African American Stereotypes in the Media When I first heard someone say‚ “All African American people are Ghetto‚” I was very offended that someone would make this type of assumption about my culture‚ and I thought how ignorant this person must be; but then I stopped and wondered why other people would think this about us. I asked her why she would say something like this‚ and she instantly listed shows like Tosh.O and Chelsea Lately‚ which highlight my culture in a
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today ’s society being an African American woman is a rigid task to live up to. It means to reside to what their ancestors have left behind‚ which means to be stronger than ever. Rosa Parks was strong‚ Harriet Tubman was also strong‚ and Jezebel was even stronger. So what exactly does it mean to be a woman? It means to stand up for what is right‚ even if that means sacrifice‚ it means to be strong whether it be physically‚ emotionally‚ or mentally. African American women are perceived to be
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integral aspect of the African American community as the honoring of generational influence has proved to be instrumental in racial identity and communal solidarity. From seventeenth-century slave novels progressing to contemporary black literature‚ artists use their social status and nobility to act as a vehicle for elucidating the younger generation of the predecessors that challenged racism and societal discrimination‚ hoping for future generations to carry that baton. African-American history proves
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progressed during 1865 to 1932‚ African Americans have experienced a variety of American liberty. There were many hurdles African Americans had to overcome before they reached any type of freedom. The first challenge they had to overcome was that they were slaves and considered to be property‚ not a person. Once this was outlawed‚ they had to overcome the discrimination from the government and other Americans. They finally achieved some of the benefits of American freedom by being able to vote‚ work
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