During his travels in Europe he discovers that the limitations that he was bounded by in America were no longer prevalent in European society. ... In Europe (The old world), Artists are looked upon more favorable than in America. "The American writer, in Europe, is released, first of all, from the necessity of apologizing for himself. ... (Baldwin 42) Baldwin found him self more fascinated with the simple life of Europe and its citizens. ... These experiences and encounters fuelled his desire to explore more of the culture and its people. ...

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Négritude is a term much used after World War II in Europe and Africa. ... He was a boy of Senegal, educated in France, involved in Euro-African culture and intellectually able to make a carrier on both continents. ... As a writer and poet, Senghor was able to explain the traditions of Africa and describe the value of the African culture of the Negroes. ... The concept is defined in contradistinction to Europe. According to Senghor, the Negro is intuitive, whereas the European is more Cartesian. ...

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The Two groups we will be focusing on today will be the Eastern European Jewish and the African American communities. ... Eastern European Jews encountered problems with assimilation and losing their identity while being absorbed into the American dream. ... Culture being the basis of both societies. With the expansion of the Eastern European Jewish community, sanctuaries grew but nowhere in proportion to the populous. ... Each culture grew and developed into their own nitche and is now a permanent part of Detroit culture...

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People also learn the values and beliefs of their culture. ... From their European heritage, people of the revolutionary era were brought up to believe in the importance of civilization, Christianity, making profits, and the superiority that came along with having white skin. Horrible treatment occurred to Natives, who's skin was not the color white, when Europeans first arrived and, " consequently, these first sowers of destruction are responsible for the infamous lie which spread throughout the world that harmed the cause of multitudes of men,- because those Europeans made the first a...

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Perhaps, however, we will be known as a choppy period in which society has been broken into groups and fractions based on things like: race, religion, culture, gender, age, and sexual orientation. ... In literature, especially, most schools no longer emphasize the traditional canon of works and authors, but are instead teaching the literature of a wide variety of cultures. ... African Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jews from Eastern Europe, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans gained large audiences and won prestigious literary prizes. ... The interstate hig...

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Wall's Paris and Harlem: Two Cultures Capitals are articles that discuss the emotions and impulses that motivated the black community of this time. ... On the other hand, Cheryl Wall, the author of Paris and Harlem: Two Culture Capitols, discusses the occurrence of blacks working to gain inspiration from white culture by traveling to Europe. ... Also, once artists from Harlem brought European influences back to the United States, black American writers looked to Harlem as the center of artistic inspiration. Wall states that Claude Mckay "felt that America was more or less an "outpos...

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Jazz Age The Jazz Age was the time in history where the soulful ness of the East met the American "white" culture. ... These musicians helped the African American culture by producing a type of free music that was a culture strike to many whites in the United States. ... Countee Cullen used both African and European images to explore the African roots of black American life. ... The Jazz age also not knowingly forshadowed the culture of today's world. By doing so it broke many boundaries and uniting the black and white culture. ...

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More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined African-American expression. ... The Harlem Renaissance transformed African-American identity and history, but it also transformed American culture in general. ... Their collective efforts not only established this new African-American identity, but also contributed to the development of our modern American culture. ... He then traveled to places in North Africa and Europe to paint and find residence. It was by the suggestion of Hawthorne that he traveled to Paris in 1826, where ...

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American history is greatly reflected in music that started since the arrival of Europeans and Africans. ... However African culture was not the only influence on American popular music, Irish and Italian cultures also greatly contributed to American music. ... Music is an important part of our cultures today as it was in the past. ...

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This paper, therefore, seeks to draw attention into how the diversity influences society, not in just non-material culture but also in the material culture with a focus on the United States culture. ... The people from Europe and far eastern, are represented by rock music and slow flowing songs. ... Though, the European songs are also played with high volumes to define entertainment and social class. ... American English, for example, is as a result of the dialect made from the British English by the many immigrants and students that formed the culture of America after some time. ... They rep...

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Race relations in America are very diverse, since America integrates people from all different cultures and ethnic backgrounds it is difficult to define certain aspects of the racial situations occurring in our society. ... Trump has made about Mexicans, make others believe in all the negative situations Mexicans have been involved such as coming to the country illegally, possibly committed serious crimes etc. and not the positive things they have accomplished in the country, such as adapting to a new culture, helping the country's economy by creating jobs or accepting low income jobs tha...

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His parents both from europe offered a strict childlife, but brought him into his love for literature and helped him to be an educated young man (South). ... Due to the time period that this novel was written in the book is very special from others about African culture. ... Paton remained a successful well rounded individual and portrays the struggle and culture in South Africa during the times of segregation very well....

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This just means that Africa's many cultures did not have an affect the way imperialists and other influences acted towards the huge continent. ... For Senghor, negritude is one's identification of one's blackness without reference to culture, language, or geography. ... Negritude rehabilitated Africa and blacks form European ideology that considered the blacks inferior to the whites. ... Rather he viewed the blend of African and European cultural influences to be a practical method of improving Africa. ... Woodson was convinced by this time that among scholars the role of his ...

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Most immigrants came from Europe, and also some from Asia in search of new opportunities for success. ... And they also strengthened the Democratic Party with their votes in exchange for preservation of their own individual cultures. ... They believed that immigrants would take their jobs and work for lesser pay and also threatened American life and culture. ... Bourne also believed that immigrants should hold on to their culture and told Americans they should embrace it. ...

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Poetry has never celebrated pride in African-American culture more than that period in the 20"s. ... Among those were women, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, and all non-Europeans. ... The non-Europeans were encouraged to show America that not all immigrants were in poverty, if they had wealth of any kind they should show it. ...

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Where once their existence was hardly acknowledged, black Americans have stormed the scene of pop culture. ... In his controversial article in the June 1926 issue of the Nation, Schuyler argues: As for the literature, painting, and sculpture of Aframericans --- such as there is --- it is identical in kind with the literature, painting and sculpture of white Americans: that is, it shows more or less evidence of European influence Now the work of these artists is no more "expressive of the Negro soul" than are the scribblings of Octavus Cohen or Hugh Wiley (Schuyler 1172). He goes on to p...

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Linda stated that she identifies with both races, her white ethnicity inherited by her American European mother, and her black race and culture, from her father's African American descent, and considers herself of no race other than that of the "human race." Because she spends a lot of time thinking about different ethnicities, cultures, and the fact that she is highly offended when she is considered as anything other than biracial, it is safe to say that she is still very confused. ... She does this by evaluating her environment, analyzing the different cultures and placing herself in ...

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Some moved to Europe because of this attitude towards America. ... The Harlem Renaissance, the rebirth of African American culture, was a huge part of the Roaring Twenties. ... Americans broadened their culture very much during this time and benefited from it. ...

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In 1900 he gave a speech to an African American audience in Louisville, Kentucky titled "The Spirit of Europe". ... In it he tried to motivate African Americans to create a recognizable culture and make a difference in the world. ... He thought that in order eliminate the problems African Americans were facing the focus must first be on boosting the African American culture. ...

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He stayed over there living in very low-income places in France and other places in Europe. ... It was a journal that was devoted to the African Culture. ... He also incorporated slanged language to reflect the essence of Black American culture. ...

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"In Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder", Jennifer Morgan gathers journal entries from European explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference.... " Morgan writes that this beastly description represented to Ligon, and similarly-minded Europeans of the time, the sole utility of the black woman's body as a producer of crops and more laborers. Additionally, their "monstrous" bodies suggested savagery, substantiating European conceptions of African inferiorit...

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Slaves were stripped of their culture and given a new identity and way to live, being inferior to whites, as slaves. ... Africans were brought to the United States by Europeans who settled in America, this was the beginning of slavery. ...

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Since there was a departure of thousands of European immigrants and Northern soldiers during the First World War, numerous jobs were available for black southerners. ... According to Joe Trotter in "The Great Migration", the mass migration of black Southerners to the North reflected not only their quest for freedom, but also caused an emergence of new patterns of race, class, and ethnic relations in American culture (31). ...

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During these years, he had odd jobs as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their own culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. ...

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After Hughes sent some of his poetry to "Crisis" magazine and it was accepted, his father was impressed enough to agree to pay for a year at Columbia University During these years, he held odd jobs as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and traveled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. ... Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, includ...

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