Culture Afro-American

With the the United States, the Culture Afro-American or black culture indicates various cultural traditions communities Afro-américain are. It forms at the same time part, and is distinguished from the American culture. The Afro-Americans are officially defined by the Bureau of the census of the United States like people having origins among the black populations of Africa. Their culture starts with that of the Africans who were held in slavery in America. Although these slaves were to prevent from practicing their cultural traditions, some of them survived and were frays with elements of the American culture.

After the abolition of slavery, these traditions purely Afro-Americans continued to evolve/move. Whereas the Afro-Americans were not held any more in slavery, their culture often developed with the variation of the evolution of the American culture because of the persistence of the Racial segregation. Consequently, the culture Afro-American became a significant share of the American culture and remains today a part distinct and single of this one. Music, Art S, Literature, Religion, Kitchen, and many other elements of the American culture is loans of the Afro-American influence.

History

See also: History of the Afro-Americans

As of the beginnings of slavery, the owners of slaves sought to control those by stripping them of their African culture. The latter however managed to preserve many elements of their ancestral culture. These elements were rouvés mingled with those with the euro-American culture to form of it a news, distinct at the same time from the cultures African and American.

Language

Generations of wandering imposed on the community Afro-American worked various languages or verbal expressions. The owner of slaves, often in an intentional way, mixed the different ethnicities in order to discourage the communication in any other language that English. This, combined with the prohibition of education, led to the development of Pidgin S, mixtures simplified of two languages or more than of the speakers of various languages could use to communicate.

Religion

Cook

Art, music and literature

General characteristics

Music

Literature

  • Literature Afro-American

Policy

Traditional costume

See too

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