In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... Their collective efforts not only established this new African-American identity, but also contributed to the development of our modern American culture. ... It was by the suggestion of Hawthorne that he traveled to Paris in 1826, where he settled, painted, and studied the works of modern European masters....

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Each group has had their own unique languages, familial relationships, social relations, music and dance traditions, they have shared many common experiences over the past 400 years (Grim, 1995).This paper will compare the cultures and histories of African American and Native American people and their long and often bloody interactions with the white majority in America. ... Slave trade was so common to this area that modern day Togo, Benin, and Eastern Ghana was referred to, in a 1727 Dutch Map, as the "Slave Coast.... One difference is that while Native American dance and music remains ...

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