A Comparison of Native American and African American Cultures Native American and African American cultures each have had their own long rich histories from before the white majority arrived in America. ... Native American History What is often referred to as the Native American population is actually comprised of over 500 unique tribes (Jackson, 1995). ... In addition to missionaries forcing religions onto the Native populations, ranchers would often encroach on land reserved for Native American use. ... African American History with Native American Comparisons While Native Americans were fig...

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Native African music consisted mainly of wind and string melodies punctuated by hand clapping, xylophones, and drum beats. ... Religion Before Blacks came to America, they had their own highly developed religious beliefs. ... A main difference between African and Christian religions, however, is that Africans did not find it necessary to convert all other cultures to their religion. ... It may be that Africans had scientific methods native to Africa that they brought to the New World, but these were overlooked by supremacist slave-owners and gradually disappeared. ... Their a...

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Turner focuses on how Islam spread to West Africa, and how it was adapted and changed by the natives. ... Natives were generally impressed with their intellect and religious beliefs. ... After the West Africans converted, they attempted to mix Islam with traditional African religions. ... Their goal was to spread Islam in the West by presenting it as a religion for all people. ... This is another example of signification and identity because Ali amalgamated Garveyism, the religion of Islam, and cult movements in the formation of his new religion. ...

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Who started every war that America has been in? ... The genocide of native people in countries ruled by whites? ... Most of the racism in Australia is directed towards the aboriginals, just the same as when white man first came Australia and slaughter thousands of natives of Aboriginals who had no chance. ... This is a different type of racism because it is about religion and what people believe in. ... This is one day that Americans especially will never forget. ...

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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. ... However, it may also be possible that such social movements as multi-culturalism are forging a New America. ... There are works by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and so on. ... African Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jews from Eastern Europe, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans gained large audiences and won prestigio...

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He did this through his public and official break from Catholicism in the 1530s, which had previously been the religion most widely practiced in his kingdom. His marital problems however brought him to realize that the catholic religion was not the proper religious niche for him, and along with him came many who believed separation was the correct path. This separation however would have left Henry and his followers religion-less had he not elected to replace Catholicism with his own Church of England. ... The Quakers built their society on the principles of civil equality apparent in their...

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Chapter 2: Native American vs. European Women Native American Women were living on the land that is called North America today for thousands of years. ... Native American women did most of the farming and agricultural work. ... This was a disadvantage for Native American women. ... With the shift in religion came a shift in gender roles. ...

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In Richard Wright's Native Son, Bigger Thomas, the main character, attempts to attain personal freedom in a racist prohibiting society. Richard Wright's "Native Son" demonstrates how the racist white society oppresses personal freedom and perpetuates evil. ... Throughout his book, Wright depicts religion as something Digger views as suppression against African Americans. ... Bigger goes on to exclaim the cross is nothing but a lie, implying that he has lost all faith in religion, seeing it as only another tool of white society to control African Americans. ... In Native Son, Bigge...

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Whether these events, such as the relocation and treatment of Native Americans or the forced slavery of African Americans, were right or wrong, they played important roles in shaping today's most powerful country. ... Eventually, people like Washington, Madison, Mason and Jefferson, did not know any better and thought that whites were supposed to rule over Natives and African Americans, with out ever questioning that particular belief. ... Until later in their life, they did not know any better than to go along with society and treat African Americans and Natives as inferior races. ....

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Take for example, the Europeans invasion upon the Native-Americans; not only was much of the Native-Americans land lost, but in many cases so was Native-Americans language and literacy. ... Native-Americans had been stripped of their own languages and beliefs. In many ways, the Natives-Americans were forced into adjusting their old ways into the new European ways. ... Through literacy these Native-Americans were now able to keep their "living language" alive and to keep their own style of writing alive. ... Without these writings or story telling, many of the rich Native-American traditions ...

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The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. ... African Americans have no native language or any African customs to connect them to Africa. ... The U.S. government has a moral responsibility to this race of people to compensate, from which they denied their heritage, religion, family, and culture. ... Well, America promised African Americans 40 acres and a mule. ... America pays false imprisoned citizens in America. ...

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Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... In the public eye, slaves demonstrated a docile acceptance of this enforced religion and acted eager to learn the biblical texts conc...

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James Arthur Baldwin was an American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and social critic. ... This day was portray in one of his essays called, "Notes of a Native Son". ... His move was not only the desire to distance himself from American prejudice, but to see himself and his writing beyond an African-American context. ... He wrote The Amen Corner, which looked at the phenomenon of storefront Pentecostal religion. ... Delving into his own life, he provided a look at the black experience in America through such works as Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name were best sel...

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The first quatrain draws upon her new self as an American. ... She uses religion in her argument, writing that it was through God's own "mercy," that she was saved from her "pagan" land and allowed her to seek redemption. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... Wheatley's skillfully chose to write in a level that was at her audience's caliber; "and it must be borne in mind that she was neither reading, nor writing, nor speaking to her audience in her native language," (Kafka 46). ... ...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. ... When America was discovered in 1492, Europeans soon realised that Africans were more able to work in the hot sun than native Americans and were also easier to identify as slaves than white prisoners because of their skin-colour. ... They lived in a world where, even their religion told them that everything white was good whereas everything black was bad or evil. ... A ...

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This writing tended to make things shift towards Egyptian ethics and religion. ... Garvey wanted to build or had plans to build an African-nation state. " The Universal Negro Improvement Association to have established in Africa that brotherly cooperation which will make the interests of the African native and the American and West Indian Negro one and the same." ... Black Power from North American was already a major influence in the Caribbean. ... In his book, Asante called for a new paradigm in education within American society. He proposes the Afrocentric approach in education to deal with...

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It is also based on the idea that some races are much more superior as compared to others[ CITATION Bre04 l 1033 ] Racial inequalities began as far back as the Native Americans when they were killed by white men for their land. ... He advocated for equal treatment for every American in the United States. ... Globalization has had an immense influence on the ethnic map of America. From the beginning of 1960, immigration has heightened in the American society. ... The economic implications of Black Americans differ from that of other minority groups. ...

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The most common targeted of racial profiling are individuals of African American descent, along with Hispanics and Muslims. ... Other immigrants were labeled as unhealthy due to the fact that their native country were stricken with diseases and famine and thought to be rampant. ... Individuals were being targeted not only because of their race and ethnicity, but because of their religion. ... Racial profiling impacts the integrity of America and its ideals because equal rights do not apply to everyone. ... " President Barack Obama, July 22, 2009 In addition to targeting the African...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. ... The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transfor...

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Many black Americans believed that through the installation of America's first black President, Barack Obama, a change was really going to come. ... Some could argue that America shows some similarities to a racial caste system. ... When the demand for more land for the settlers increased, the urgency to get rid of the Native Americans increased as well. ... When the American Revolution ended, the Constitution was drafted. ... After slavery, the Jim Crow Laws were next in creating a caste system in America. ...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. ... One of the most important experiences, which gave me a lasting impression, concerned American people's attitudes towards Mexican people. ... I also conversed with a Professor of American History, Clayborne Carson, who is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. ... As a result of the racial segregation laws black Americans were permanently abased...

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American music is extremely varied and diverse. ... Native Americans, immigrants from all over the world, women...they are all able to stand up and be counted, but one group especially has had a great impact on American music: African-Americans. ... England, particularly, had a profound impact on American culture and society. ... American-born composers generally went to Europe to perfect their craft. Eventually, American-born composers realized they were facing a dilemma: much of the music and art they were producing from the English past was alien to Americans of non-English background. ...

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