Africa,_Slavery,_&_The_Roots_Of_Contemporary_Black_Culture

Africa, Slavery, & The Roots Of Contemporary Black Culture Journal Article Summary: “Africa, Slavery. & the Roots of Contemporary Black Culture” Written by: Carey Pittman Course: African-American Studies The Americas, which include North America, South America, and Central America, soon became an outpost of West African culture going on between the sixteenth century and the middle of the nineteenth century. Traces of this cultural phenomenon are still discovered today in the United States in the most recent decades of the twentieth century in the areas of: music, folktales, language, proverbs, dress, dance, medicine, food, architecture, art and religion. African cultural patterns also influenced American slavery as an institution, which occurred in the United States and in other European countries. From a contemporary perspective, the importance of slavery lies in tow areas. The first area is that slavery has been the major determinant of American/African people has been the rocky race relations and relegations that people had to follow. The legacy of slavery in the nineteenth century of slavery led to the institution, or enactment of, Jim Crow laws, which were legal guidelines designed to separate blacks and whites by placing children in segregated schools and housing. Black people were often discriminated against simply because slavery, culture, blacks, african-american, religion, people, family, america, without, century, black, american, african-americans, african, united, strong, states, role, resources, one’s, often, needs, music, lives, lifestyle, institution, families, european, contemporary, community, being, been, against, africa, about