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    African American Studies arose from necessity because of the biases in the American education system. To respond to and attempt to rectify these biases‚ African American Studies became an educational field in which students could examine history through a new lens; a lens that allowed for closer examination of the experience of African Americans in the United States‚ a subject which had previously been miniscule. The tendency to examine the achievements of Europeans while disregarding the achievements

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    African Americans can trace their religious roots back to African religions‚ Judaism‚ Islam and Christianity. Christianity for the majority of African Americans became the dominated religion because of evangelism by Europeans. Instead of keeping the enslaved Africans submissive and in line Christianity enriched and strengthened the lives of African Americans to seek their freedom. Several of the insurrection and antislavery movements were born in the African American church. From its inception the

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    does ungodly acts in the name of God”. Thinking about what Gandhi once said‚ one can remember the ungodly acts of imperialism in the 19th century. Imperialism‚ or the takeover by a superior country to an inferior country‚ left lots of damage. The European imperialists spread their culture to Africa‚ changing the African’s old and more advanced customs and ideals‚ and force China to trade when they did not want to in the first place. Today‚ there has been many cases of intervention by the United States

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    Whether we know it or not‚ black inventors have impacted our lives drastically. From the time we wake up‚ until we go back to sleep at night‚ we use at least one thing that has been made by an African- American inventor. Whether it is something as big as a traffic light or as little as a hair brush‚ black inventors have made major contributions to our everyday lives. Many people know about the big inventions‚ but both small and big inventions have impacted America. (Lund 2008) During slavery‚ most

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    long held European beliefs. Included among those are ideas about race and its relationship to freedom. With new innovations and the high time of Indian Ocean trade‚ new ideas were spread everywhere. Two factors influenced this change. One was the discovery of the New World and the second was the demand for slaves. With the discovery of the New World‚ explorers were introduced to new civilizations. While they were sophisticated‚ they were still primitive in comparison to the Europeans. Their customs

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    In the Beginning of the 16th century‚ Africans were enslaved and brought to the United States of America. Separated from their history and language‚ African Americans somehow managed to preserve their spirit for music. The music helped to increase productivity in the daily task and reduce the feeling for sadness. The blues was created by African American communities in the deep South of the United States. It started in the 19th century and continued to make its way in the future. The blues was everywhere

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    African-American Struggle for Freedom Beverly Garrett Axia College In the early nineteenth century‚ the African American went from slavery to the struggle for freedom. They had to do several activities in order to survive. Even though food affected the lifestyle during slavery‚ with religion‚ soul food like greens‚ and hamburger meat was prepared and grown to help families survive. There were several kinds of slaves

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    Today I will be talking about the contribution of African American culture to the United States. One of the largest emigrants to arrive in the United States in the colonial time is the West and Central Africans. You could find African’s spread out around American colonies from Maine to Florida ‚ and Mexico to Canada. In the 1830s there where 2.3 million Africans out of the 12.8 million people in the United States. The way Americans eat in New Orleans is influenced by African’s. The popular foods

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    Once slavery had been around in America for a couple of years the Africans influenced some of the European cuisine. During the early stages of slavery Africans wanted to escape to be free. Spain knew about that and since Spain did not like America they declared that any slave that managed to run away and reach St.Augustine would be free. Once most of the Africans heard about this they all tried to go to St.Augustine‚ while some succeeded many did not. For those that succeeded they managed to formulate

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    explicitly states that‚ Africa from the early 15th century towards the 18th century was enslaved by the Europeans and Americans. Africans were taken from their homeland and families and forced onto slave boats‚ then sold into slavery‚ where they would spend the remainder of their life in misery‚ and

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