Just to name a few, the parents are similar to the white people who did not like the African Americans and the teenagers dancing represented the African Americans who wanted equal rights. ... The teenagers' dancing represents the African Americans having to sit in the back of the bus. It was illegal for the teenagers to dance. ... Sitting in the front of the bus was something that African Americans wish they could do; just as dancing is something the teenagers wish they could do. Ren could not believe that dancing was illegal and he fought for the right for the teenagers to be allowed to...

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Puerto Ricos music culture stems from a combination of African percussions and poetry. ... It has heavy musical roots from Cuba and the African-Caribbean. Salsa is Highly danceable, its rhythms are hot and rhythmically sophisticated. ... Mambos dance moves are generally from foward to backward but Salsa has more of a side to side feel. However, Salsa and Mambo are dance and loved everywhere in the Caribbean. ...

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"The Rumba" The Rumba is a mixture of several different dances in which originated in Cuba and Africa. ... In the early 16th century, slaves imported from Africa to Cuba were dancing a ceremonial dance known as the "son." The native dance is a folk dance. It is danced very quickly and swiftly with vigorous moments from the dancers. ... When dancing the Rumba, you use your hips in a more exaggerated way than you would with any other dance. ...

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Fads of the Roaring Twenties included Flagpole sitting, the dance marathon, and a Chinese game, Mah-jongg. ... Dance floors shook all over the country with various dances that accompanied the music. ... The Roaring Twenties marked a new generation of American Literature and the recognition of African American writers. ... The Harlem Renaissance, the rebirth of African American culture, was a huge part of the Roaring Twenties. ... Black writers wrote about the experiences of African Americans, the lynchings and other violence that they had to survive after WWI. ...

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Carolina and the middle states enslaved Africans as well. ... There they were traded for Africans. ... The slaves mixed their African roots with Christianity. The African practice of the give-and- take between caller and dancers in the African ring-shout dance became apparent in the slaves "responsorial" style of preaching in which frequent assents and omens accentuated the minister's sermons. ... Music and dance were the slaves vehicle of self expression. ...

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Merengue is a type of dance that is most strongly identified with the Dominican Republic. ... One of them being that the black slaves saw the ballroom dances in the Big Houses and when they had their own festivities started mimicking the "masters' dances". However, the Europeans dances were not very exciting, so over time, the slaves added the use of the drums to make the dance more upbeat. Even though it was very popular among the masses, high-class people did not accept merengue for a long time, because it was related to African music. ...

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By imitating dances and songs which were especially inspired by black people working on Southern plantations and their typical African-American vernacular, white minstrel performers thus portrayed African-American people on stage until William Henry Lane – an African-American artist – became popular as being one of the first black performers in the United States. ... Rice made blackface minstrelsy even more popular with his song and simultaneously dance "Jump Jim Crow" and minstrel shows could fill a whole evening's entertainment program – Rice can be seen as ...

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While I was eating, there was a sudden rush and roaring to the side of the building where they were doing a Mexican folk dance and that caught my eye. ... How Mexican has a Folk dance, my country has a Bhangra dance and how Arabians have their Dabke dance. After seeing the amazing dance I marched my way down to the bazaars to see what type of accessories other countries have. ... Henna usually exists in Africa, Middle East and Asian countries. ... I went my way on down to the cultural performances and sat through many cultural dances. ...

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African American's Great Migration to a better Economy and Freedom After the Reconstruction era the African American's population changed in the south during the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... The Jim Crow laws were a big reason why the African Americans moved. ... Many African Americans found this as an advantage to change their economy. ... Soon the Whites would lessen the African American control on these towns. ... The African Americans brought with them to these states many of their African cultures though art, dance, music and life African heritage, which are seen t...

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Rap goes back over twenty years and is very similar in style to the poetic Griots of West Africa. ... DJ Kool Herc was the first DJ to create an MC dance team, and during his performances at clubs, his dancers became known as break-dancers. ... Break dancing was a style of dance that grew up around rap music during its early stages in the United States. ... The only way to talk about break dancing is to describe the type of moves that are performed by the dancer. ... In this style of dancing, dancers would twitch and snap their muscles in rhythm with the music; some dance moves like ...

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Many of his works used native dances and language. ... He was of mixed African and European descent. ... By the end of his life he was known as the most influential of the Latin-American poets who dealt with African themes....

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African spirituals were carried to America among the hearts of oppressed slaves in the 1600s. ... African Spirituals gave root to other genres of music: blues, folk, and in 1950s, rock n roll. ... Hip-Hop is synonymous with the culture of appreciation of Rap, as well as one that produces different danceable beats. ...

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This evolution of American music is rooted in the application of African esthetic, notably the use of polyrhythms, an expanded range of tone colors, call and response, and African-derived scales and singing styles. ... Lastly, African singing style and its applied scale had a large impact in America. ... Making use of the brass bands that entertained in city parks, it quickly became a popular dance-based music. ... Yet, jazz also incorporates the other two aspects of the African esthetic. ... Pop music makes use of all the different African-influenced aspects at one time or another. ...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms in which minorities are dealt with and looked upon show the true forms of intention and persecution these groups feel because they do not and can not assimilate to the majority party. It is a keepsake that revolves upon the premise and ideas that the majority will always be in power and that it is a...

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The Commission provided the men with an array of wholesome leisure activities ranging from sports to theater to well-regulated dances and library books that were censored for their benefits. ... The camps included a large percentage of working class men, African Americans, and immigrants. ... " The relationship between progressivism and the African American community had always been complexed and troubled." The Draft act of 1917 called for the registration of black and white men alike, allowing African Americans to serve in the First World War. ... The CTCA was up against opposition ...

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During the 60's there was a social and political shift within the Mexican and African American community. Many who take US History in high school or pay attention to the media, know more about the civil rights movement in the South than the United Farm Workers. While Cesar Chavez is more widely know...

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The influence of African culture into the southern colonies was very strong due to the large amount of African slaves. With their free labor, they brought music, dance and language to the America's, making it the most diverse region in the world at the time. ... It is said that millions of black men and women were kidnapped from their homes in Africa, often by local tribal leaders, and were brought to the Americas by aristocrats profiteering from their vulnerability. ...

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Similar to the people under the rule of Afghanistan's Taliban now, dancing, music, games, long hair, colorful clothing, the nakedness of any skin in public, and the minimal pleasures in life were all banned and forbidden. ... With just over 20,000 Africans in 1700 to well over 400,000 in 1770, the African population was rising ever year. Planters could buy not only Africans as slaves, but Germans and Scot-Irishmen as well; usually as indentured servants though. ... Slaves were taken from their homes and villages in central Africa and boarded on ships where many often died from the horr...

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I speak somewhat fluent Spanish, am very knowledgeable on the different parts of Hispanic culture, and am very into Latin dance and music. ... Among the several different backgrounds represented in New York City is Chinese, Bangladeshi, Korean, Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, Puerto Rican, Indian, and African American, not to mention the numerous religions represented as well. ... Singing, dancing, and acting my entire life has obviously instilled a passion for seeing performance as well. ...

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I believe that Reconstruction helped the African-Americans get some of the freedom that equally deserved. ... Ku Klux Clan - The KKK was created after the Civil War as means of rebelling against the Reconstruction plans and the plans to give the African-Americans equal rights. ... Ghost Dance Movement - This was brought about by a Paiute prophet named Wovoka in 1888. ...

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Slavery in the Americas, is where we first see African slaves imported to Latin America largely concentrated in the Caribbean (Cuba, Dominican Republic/Haiti, and Puerto Rico). ... Now that the population was decimated, people were going to Africa and thats when we have the beginning of transatlantic slave trade to replace the indigenous population. ... For example, the big discussion in America right now is the police brutality against African American young men. This recently erupted in Ferguson, Missouri where people put on riots to show their anger against police targeting African American...

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On March 3, 1991, in California, Rodney King an African American, was pulled over after a high-speed chase. ... Tracy Brock also an African American was arrested in Manhattan in November of 1986. ... Abner Louima a Haitian immigrant was arrested outside a dance club in Brooklyn, and was brutally assaulted when he arrived at the police station. ...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. The transcendentalists A. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, ...

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Another categorizing confusion is the black people in the United States, why are they called African-American when most of them are just simply American? ... He wanted to ask a White girl to dance and not have her laugh in his face because he is Latino. ...

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Rock and Roll is a type of dance music that blends rhythms of blues, folk and country. ... Since rock was invented by an African American named Chuck Berry, white people at that time disheartened the music and it could never really spread throughout the world. ...

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