What Are The Effects Of European Colonization On African American Culture

During the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Europeans started to make their way to the new world, they discovered a society that was strikingly different to their own. In the late 1800’s, the rare Native Americans that were left in the United States were practically extinguished. Many diverse things contributed to their near-extinction, some were considered intentional and some unintentional. Some tribes made the decision to go willingly, and some decided to fight to their death but in the end, it was confirmed that Native Americans and settlers could not live together in amity, and the Native Americans were the ones at harm. The integration of European colonization ultimately led to the demise of the various Native American

Arway is a seven-year-old student who has just immigrated to the United States from Monrovia, Liberia with her family. She comes from one of the most populated cities in Liberia. In the 1800s, freed African American slaves settled in Liberia via the American Colonization Society. Friction occurred between the African Americans and the indigenous Liberians which turned into two brutal civil wars that not only resulted in numerous deaths, but also severely devastated the Liberian economy. Even though Arway was born after the second civil war ended, her family has experienced the war and its devastating effects that may have affected their choice to emigrate.

How did the experience of colonization affect those who were colonized while also influencing the colonizers? Colonization requires the interaction of two different groups and no matter how much one culture or group may be the more powerful both end up picking up traits of one another.

From the birth of the United States of America until the mid 1800’s many citizens owned African slaves. Over two hundred years white men owned and dominated these africans. These Africans did not have any land but this is still a form of imperialism. African Americans were not equal in the white man's eyes, they weren’t humans they were merely property, they were pets more or less. This could easily be described as skin tone imperialism. Even though slavery was abolished in the 1860’s African Americans were still oppressed by the white man. African Americans were still not seen as equal, they could not dine in the same room or more common the same restaurant as white people, they had to use “colored” bathrooms, “colored” swimming pools, segregated

The French influenced the Africans because the French wanted to change the Africans in the French world and the Africans did not want to have anything to do with the Western culture, but in the end, it would become the Africans downfall because they still wouldn’t be good enough for the French. With the concept of the French policy, Africans would still be black and would never be a part of the French culture. Next, the Europeans main focus was political and religion advancement. The Europeans used this method against the Africans, so they can force them African citizens into violence. When the African people fight against one another, the Europeans would later gain complete control over Africa. An illustration of mental violence is how the

As an African-American male of Nigerian descent growing up in the United States, my parents constantly talked about my heritage and invariably enforced it on me throughout my 17 years in this world. As an adolescent I often see my parents on the phone with my relatives in Nigeria discussing their daily struggles, lack of food, little or no electricity and the withering health of the old and the young due to lack of medication and treatment. This prompts my parents to constantly send money to their loved ones. This sparked my awareness of the problems that Nigerian community and the rest of the third world countries are going through. How my parents voluntarily support their relatives has made me to participate in more volunteer activities in my Maryland Community. I have joined the National English Honor Society at my school and I participated in a home makeover program with “My Girlfriend’s House” Community Program to help the less fortunate by providing them with food and new living utensils. The many charitable acts I have done resulted from my cultural background and I plan to continue doing this during and after college.

The history of the Americas has certainly seen its fair share of violence since the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Much of this violence, though certainly not all, has been inflicted upon the native peoples of North, Central, and South America. European colonization of these lands has had immense and broad adverse effects on the people already residing there; some of these effects were calculated by the Europeans, while some were not. Among some of the calculated effects were extreme and heinous acts of violence towards natives and theft of native land. Some of the effects the Europeans did not foresee were the diseases that would wreak havoc on the natives and the depletion of Native American culture.

Have you ever seen a group of boys dancing together with some exciting and cool musical beat? Hip hop has a great impact on many African Americans as a cultural phenomenon. Actually, hip hop has two different definitions. One means a type of dance music with spoken words and a steady beat played on electronic instruments, originally played by young African Americans. The other meaning is the culture of the young African Americans and others who enjoy this type of music which includes special styles of arts, dancing and dress. Hip hop included Deejays, rapping, B-Boys, and graffiti. However, rapping became its main form some years later. (Danger, 2013) But does everybody know the origins and founders of hip hop? This report will trace its

Europeans created an ideology that Africans were inferior to justify not only their trade but also the mistreatment and cruelty they showed to Africans.

It has often been said that the European colonization of America was motivated by, gold, God, and glory. It was an exciting chance to explore new lands and to claim them for your country, to get rich! These motives are what drove many Europeans into the uncharted and unknown lands of America. These people were looking for untold amounts of riches, they were looking for unsaved heathen souls to reap for the Church, and they were looking to make a name for themselves, to go down into history as legends. Some fulfilled these goals, others didn’t. However, even though some Europeans didn’t find what they were looking for, or couldn’t get what they were looking for, they had caused a ripple effect throughout the Americas that would rock every single

Richard B. Lee’s book, The Dobe Ju/’hoansi, showed multiple differences between the Dobe Ju/’hoansi society and our current American society we live in. The cultural ethnographically book takes place in the Kalahari Desert, located in South Africa, in the 1960s. Lee a Canadian anthropologist, traveled to South Africa to do ethnographic research of modern day foraging societies of San tribes. Foreigners saw the Ju/’hoansi as having a primitive and un-sophisticated culture, but little did they know surviving foragers had much to teach us. The book gave detailed descriptions on San people society’s aspects of life which

One negative consequence of globalization: The alienation of African secular culture in relation to dating and sex.

The original thirteen colonies were founded on racism and colonialism which became rooted in the United States way of life. Settlers who were fleeing from the oppressive hold of their european rulers, came to oppose the same oppressive rule on the native people, removing them from their lands and by enslaving Africans. With the election of a divisive president, who praises and has the support of white supremacists, we cannot dismantle racism and colonialism in American society without getting rid of whiteness, or at least radically transforming it without providing equal opportunity to all races.

The !Kung bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa are one of the few bands of hunter-gatherers left in the world. They survive by foraging for their meals while traveling, never settling in one specific area. Hunting and gathering was the primary mode of survival until about ten thousand years ago. Anthropologists have made assumptions about the hunting and gathering lifestyle of current populations because it seems like a precarious method of living. Moreover, the Kalahari area where the !Kung live in was perceived to be baron because it is a desert. However, a study done over a period of years beginning in 1960 led by Richard Lee disproved the common misconception of the life of these foragers, proving that they were not

*Lee went to Botswana to visit the !Kung society in order to study their hunting and gathering subsistence economy. In order to accomplish this, it was essential for Lee not to intrude on their hunter- gatherer system by providing them with food, sharing his food or interfere with their food gathering activities in any way. However, scarce handouts of tobacco and medical supplies were appreciated, they were scarcely adequate to erase the glaring disparity