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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This illustrates the efforts of Africans excluding the native whites from the blacks association. ... "America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem" (Malcolm 1) The speech by Malcolm reveals the author's Islamic faith. The author believes that the Islamic religion is likely to change the social problems of the American society. ... In his career as an influential activist, the author attempts to employ the Islamic religion in changing the divine, political, economic and social wellbeing amongst the African-Amer...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

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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Instead, Hudson discovered New York Harbor which had an island and a river that ventured into the "unknown interior" as well as many hostile natives that he deemed, "Manates". ... The settlers traded weapons and ammunition illegally with the natives which resulted in random violence that halted many Europeans from settling in the New World. ... The Company then created outposts in South America, which led to the Company's demise. ... At first the Jewish practiced their religion in secret, until they received their own cemetery, then they practiced openly. ...

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• Grade Level: High School