...Last year, Kylie Jenner posted a mirror selfie on Instagram of her hair braided into cornrows along with the caption “I woke up like this.” She faced immediate backlash; some of her fans called her racist, while African American Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg accused Jenner of appropriating black culture. Heidi Klum, Justin Timberlake, Jared Leto and Lena Dunham have also faced ridicule for donning cornrows, a hairstyle closely associated with black culture and Afro-centered tradition. This controversy over cornrows and other hairstyles like dreadlocks raises many questions. Is it cultural appropriation to adopt hairstyles often associated with people of another race? What is the difference between cultural appreciation and appropriation? Does fighting against...
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...How African-American Culture Conceived Jazz Near the beginning of the twentieth century, Jazz was a new style of music being invented by African-American musicians who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city of New Orleans during the beginning of the twentieth century was loaded with individuals of different ethnicities and backgrounds. Before the early twentieth century, New Orleans was colonized by the French and Spanish. When the French and Spanish colonized New Orleans, they brought with them their slaves from various regions of the African continent; mainly, the slaves came from West Africa. In the book The Story of Jazz Marshall W. Stearns states: …the various stages in the development of the slave trade had a decisive influence on what part of Africa the slaves came from... the majority of slaves came from the West coast of Africa…inter-tribal raids and dynastic wars in West Africa led to the selling of kings and priests into slavery, people who were specialists in their own tribal music and rituals (16). When the French sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States, the slave trade existed until it was banned sometime in the early nineteenth century. However, even though the trade was banned, slavery in the United States existed until after the Civil War. Within the confines of slavery, a new tradition was made from a mix of African and American traditions. The mix of African and American traditions started when the slaves were brought...
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...The culture of freedom fighting throughout the African-American community is long lived and overdue. Even before the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s millions of African-Americans were victims of slavery and oppression. The stereotyping of African-Americans was brought to the theatrical stage with the advent of the blackface minstrel. Beginning in the early 19th century, white performers darkened their faces with burnt cork, painted grotesquely exaggerated white mouths over their own, donned woolly black wigs and took the stage to entertain society. The character they created was Jim Crow. Racism has lived before the Jim Crow era; however, this time in history only made freedom for African-Americans harder to obtain and oppression to the minorities...
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...1 An Analysis of African American Culture in the Health and Human Services Setting Introduction Communication has often been defined by scholar as the process by which people send messages and generate meanings across various contexts, cultures, and media. The process of communicating does not stop; it occurs cycle after cycle. Whether through verbal or non-verbal messages, the transaction takes place and is inevitable, named by scholars as The Principle of Communication Inevitability. Recognizing that communication will exist, whether intentional or not, it is important to understand the various areas of our life where communication may be vital to the success of the structure. One important area is focused on human welfare—medical, physical, emotionally, mentally, and financially—of children and adults. The method in which health and human service workers communicate with the people whom they serve is one that must be studied, implemented, and constantly improved. Health and human service workers are focused on the quality of life for an individual. They are not present to meet the wants out of life. The ultimate focus is rendering services that are conducive to one’s ability to live. Whether communicating good or bad news, professionals, patients, and clients have mutual responsibility for effective sending and receiving messages. People belong to certain demographics that shape who they are, how they feel, how they learn, their exposure to certain aspects of life...
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...Prince Hall (1735 -1807) was a major influence in African American culture. It is unclear as to where or what year he was born (it ranges from 1735 to 1738). According to the website of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Florida, Hall’s father was white but his mother was black. Hall was a former slave, a craftsman and entrepreneur. Also, Hall was a black patriot an abolitionist and the most famous black mason of his time. The height of his influence was from 1775 until 1791. He fought in the revolutionary war, created both the Prince Hall Masons and the African Grand Lodge of North America. He is credited with being the father of free black masonry. In July of 1775 George Washington set a policy banning black men from fighting on the Patriot...
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...The collapse of slavery after the Civil War sent shockwaves throughout American Society. While the concept of slavery was destroyed, the ideology of White Superiority over blacks remained throughout the Country. The Minstrel Shows emerged from the remnants of slavery and invigorated the discrimination towards blacks. The shows were comedic acts starring blacks slandering their demeanor and behavior through satirization. The Minstrel Shows and entertainment industry reflected the widely accepted the social differences of the time between blacks and whites and ultimately lead to the development of many black stereotypes. The conclusion of the Civil War brought huge social changes for African Americans. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, thus freeing all African Americans from their former slave masters. However, not all people followed suit with the new amendment, and the rights of the blacks varied throughout the...
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...and birth as well as death which direct various forms of culture. The Heritage Assessment tool is used in order to build a greater understanding of cultural beliefs. Although the assessment is only composed of a few questions, it is used as a pathway to open up discussions regarding one’s own values about sickness, health, religion, and family support systems. This assignment will discuss and measure diversity and similarities between Americans and the sub groups of African Americans and Middle Eastern culture groups. Though Middle Easterners generally respect Western Medicine, they have common folk beliefs such as other people having powers to cause others illness...
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...African Americans The African American culture today is no longer the same as the seventeenth century. After slavery became abolished, African Americans moved on to much higher things and African Americans are just as powerful as any other person belonging to another race. They have their own month which is black history month. Some African Americans are paid more than other Americans, and some are even famous today. The African American culture had a great impact on the American culture. Certain foods such as yam, okra, and grits were influence by the African culture. Today, the descendents of African American slaves can be found all over the world, but the populations of African Americans are extremely high in the south of the United States because of slavery in the past. African Americans have equal rights and they are well aware of it. They can voice their opinions and have had protests against discrimination in the past. Many African Americans today have also given a wider variety to dance and music such as singer the late singer Michael Jackson. Instead of just being mainly of the Christian religion such as in the seventeenth century, African Americans have the right to choose any religion they desire. They also participate in every day events and follow the American main stream events such as local parades. Some African Americans today face discrimination because some descendents carried the same views as their ancestors. Different traditions of the African culture are...
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...Culture is a very integral part of making people who they are. The culture one exists in effects and can be affected by their beliefs, social norms, race, religion, and social group. My friend can't I was born in South Korea, but moved to the United States when he was an infant. He, therefore has lived in the United States for as long as he can remember. Growing up in America with Korean parents has created a co-culture within my friends family. I am going to compare Hyun Tae’s Korean-American culture with my own African-American (actually from Africa) co-culture. As I interviewed can take, I learned that the American culture that he most assimilates with, contrast a great deal with the Korean culture of his parents. The first contrast in hyuntae...
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...One American subculture consists of Black Americans. They have their own unique history that differs from people of different skin colors who moved to the North American continent. Black Americans were originally from Africa and brought to the North American continent as slaves. The most prominent distinctive factor is their dark skin color. In 2015 the black population in America was 46.3 million people, which is about 14.4 percent of the U.S. population. As stated earlier, they originated from Africa and were transported to North America as slaves. They were freed from that lifestyle with the help of the emancipation proclamation that was made in 1862. Since they were separate for a long time, they developed their own cultural traditions,...
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...to give two exams of each group. Then I am going to talk about how each one relates to music and culture of the time period I have picked. The time period that I am going to focus of is 1970’s. The first cartorige I am going to talk about is Black pop. Black pop mostly came from 1960’s. That means that Black pop to grow form 1960’s Most of white listeners that listened to Black pop did not know who was singing. There were also white folks involved with Black pop. There are white fans,...
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... Well this is my view when it comes to Lebanese Americans and African Americans cultures. I will begin with a short history of Arabs. Beirut, Mount Hermon and Lebanon is where most of the Lebanese settlers in America came from. There are known also as the Armenian population and they speak of variety of language’s including Turkish and Armenian. However, Syriac is spoken by Assyrians, along with French and English. During World War 1, France and England separated the region into English and French territories. Eventually, “England assumed control of what became Palestine and Jordan, and France took over what became Syria and Lebanon” (Every Culture). The very first Arabic speaking Christian Lebanese individuals migrated...
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...It is quite common to hear how the middle and high-income classes of the United States affect their culture and economy. However, the role that poverty and low-income classes play is not discussed as often, especially in a positive light. Usually, poverty and the impoverished are looked down upon from the other classes, causing divides. Poverty and culture affect each other at the same time, intertwining and impacting both. Some of the influences poverty produces in the culture of the United states includes stigma, segregation, and a lack of empathy. First off, poverty is stigmatized. Poverty in itself is its own culture, creating new ways to survive and function in a capitalistic society that depends on money. The large majority that makes up impoverished communities consists of minorities such as African-Americans. Since African-Americans are already being stereotyped and given the short stick, adding poverty into the mix does not produce any benefit. In American society, being low-income is shameful and receiving help from the government is seen as negative. The...
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...For gender we can look at how African American man who are diagnosis with type 2 diabetes don’t seek treatment and if they do it would be at a later time. According to the book,” African American men bear the largest share of these health inequalities; their lives are shortened primarily by cardiovascular and/or chronic disease, and secondarily by higher rates of violence,” (324). These man don’t seek treatment or health care because it may feel as if they would lose all sense of life if they begin to eat health and not partake in social events like smoking and drinking. They rather don’t seek treatment also because in the African American culture, social construct like masculinity hinder them from accepting what is reality. It state that,”...
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...Throughout the 1920’s jazz music was a defining aspect of American culture; it also had a huge effect on society.. People of the time saw either playing or listening to jazz as a way to feel free or even escape from their daily lives. With the social changes going on in the 20’s, like the parties and the way people behaved, jazz fit right in with the changing times. Many jazz enthusiasts will argue that you are born with a love of jazz (Jazz History: The Standards). Like Louis Armstrong once said, "if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know" (Music with Ease > Jazz Quotes). In conjunction with the roaring twenties, jazz made it to the top and became widely known across the United States, and even some parts of Britain, making it a worldwide movement. It came very popular with people who wanted to get away from their normal lives and escape into the swing of jazz. Novelist F Scott...
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