Black Culture And Its Effects On Society

Society’s expectations affect everyone either physically, mentally, or emotionally. One of the biggest factors that plays a role in the assumptions that others make is social class. More specifically, many people do not have the access to certain goods and/or services because corporations will not locate stores in some areas. One example of a good that is hard for some people to buy is healthy food. There is an absence of grocery stores in many low-income areas which leads to the creation of food deserts. Food deserts cause people residing in low-income areas to rely heavily on either fast food or cheap food from convenience stores. Ultimately, corporations and businesses are to blame for the lack of access to healthy and nutritional food available to individuals from a lower socioeconomic class.

Culture is such a broad and complex term that can be defined in numerous ways. It is said that in part is the integrated pattern of human knowledge, communication, belief, art, literature, and music one acquires upon learning and transmitting characteristics from previous generations. Culture is symbolic communication, and its symbols are learned and carefully perpetuated in a society through its institutions. In Black Culture and Black Consciousness by Lawrence W. Levine, he carefully attempts to uncover Afro-American culture during the antebellum and postbellum periods. More often than none, historians like to emphasize the things that get lost in the culture of Afro-Americans when they are taken from Africa and forced to live as enslaved people in North America. However, in Levine’s book, we discover that he carefully

As professors teaching Black Studies today will tell you, the socialization of blacks into the American traditional culture failed. We have failed to bring the vast majority of the offspring of the slaves into the culture of Western Civilization, the culture of Abraham Lincoln. While part of the black community is Christian and has been socialized for years, the dominant black majority in America is led by the Democratic Party and rejects Western Civilization.

“Cooning” was a TV show or Film usually they act like idiot behavior that misrepresents African American culture. I think idiot because that shows a deliberate act. Many people called “coons.” Yes, I saw some examples today’s culture some white people still discriminate black people. Some white people were enjoying it, and that seems to some people they insulted African- American behaves. African-American got angry. It was not fair at all that behavior. All are good examples.

A little something about me I don't think fit into the stereotypical idea of “black culture “. Growing up I always had an open mind to everything. When it comes to music fashion food anything that makes the person that I am. And being the second oldest child out of seven I learned to be different because my younger siblings are looking up to me. Especially because I'm the only one who graduated from high school.

The Unites States is a true melting pot of ethnicities and cultures. For many members of minority groups a certain hybridity is readily adopted, but for others, cultural assimilation can be quite difficult. Chicana author, Sandra Cisneros described this phenomenon as “always straddling two countries… but not belonging to either culture” (Doyle. 54). African American author, Alice Walker shared Cisneros’ sentiment, but focused her attention on the assimilation of black cultures and subcultures within the United States. Cisneros and Walker make the same poignant statement about the strains of cultural assimilation, with reconciliation of split identities as the goal, in their respective works, 1991’s “Woman Hollering Creek,” and 1973’s “Everyday Use,” yet their unique ethnic perspectives allow them to make it in surprisingly different ways.

The correlation between race and suburbs in America has been full of tension and exclusivity. In the 1950s, white flight, the migration of white people from city centres into suburbs, leaving behind the black population in inner-cities was common. This has contributed to a distinct spatial division between the Anglo-Americans and African Americans within the America. Being caused by the existing income disparity, the minority African Americans, having a lower social-economic status in American, are mostly trapped in poverty cycle and are unable to afford housing ownership in suburbs. Further aggravated by discriminative government policies towards the minorities, social division within the country was made even more prominent.

Recent events that have highlighted racial tension in the United States have had even a larger number of opinions that vary regarding why the nation continues to struggle with such a challenging issue. In our text Chapter 6 titled “The City/Suburban Divide” (Judd & Swanstrom, 2015, p. 136) identifies a subject that very well may contribute to the tension. A reference to the “urban crisis” describes a landscape that is littered with “high levels of segregation, inequality and poverty, along with racial and ethnic tensions.” (Judd, et al., p. 165) Many scholars argue that the crisis was a result of the demographic changes the nation experienced following World War II as advancements in technology and infrastructure aided White Mobility. The term “White Flight” has been used to describe a massive relocation early in the twentieth century when the White Middle-Class population left the cities for suburban areas following the great migration.

Key Publics Today’s Black Teens are consumers, trendsetters, and influencers of household purchases. They have a major impact on society’s mainstream culture. Black influence permeates American culture in every aspect from music to fashion to dance. These characteristics prove Black Teens to be a valuable target audience for marketers and a noteworthy key public. Black Teen buying power is sustainable in comparison to the counterparts and beneficial to advertisers as they spend 20% more per month than the average U.S. teen.

Over the years, we have seen how black culture has evolved in America. From our dance movements, music, hairstyles and language we see how other races embrace our culture; however, they do not embrace the people who created the culture they claim to love so much. It is baffling to know that America takes the things we created and make into their own without giving credit when credit is needed. The truth is black culture is one of this country’s biggest exports and symbols of youth, and people try to take advantage of it by mimicking it. Imitation is viewed as the sincerest form of flattery, yet somehow, this flattery does not expand to include the individual people that compose that black community and culture. In this paper, we will

If the social constraint of race cannot be eliminated, the next best thing could just be to make different race not be mutually exclusive within discussions of equality and justice. Rather than black nationalist ideologies being the norm, patriotism should be accepted within black societies because that offers a wider range of opportunities and possibilities of progression. Ellison believed in the acceptance of all people as American. He believed that “whatever else the true American is, he is also somehow black.” (Cargill) From the very beginning of the United States of America being born, black culture has somewhat impacted everyone’s lives and shaped their ideas. Within an accepting society of people, everyone's a little bit of every ethnicity,

Throughout my life, I have considered myself to belong to many different communities: Italian, Canadian, Catholic, etc. Being born into a bi-racial family, I have always been surrounded by different culture influences. However, the one community that has the strongest influence on my actions, views, and behavior is the African-American community.

The Black culture is deeply rooted in religion and spirituality as our foundation. In addition, our values, customs, traditions, and way of life speak to the meaning of Black culture. It is a culture I take much pride in. Often my culture is referred to as African -American or Black-American culture. The Black culture is a culture of family, resilience, strength, forgiveness, adaptability, and complexities. Like most cultures, the Black culture is also flawed. The culture also reflects multitudes of contributions to American culture. What is important to understand about Black Culture is that is it also multicultural.

African Americans have been through so much since being uprooted from their home in Africa. Most people do not understand what happened to African Americans and they understand what they had to go through to be where they are today. It went from being kings in the comfort of their home to being thrown on a boat packed like sardines to be forced to work in the fields. The trip was a massacre itself because many did not make it due to the treatment from others. African Americans have always been treated like outsiders and it took many people to sway the perception of others to be where they are today. Through all the ups and downs African Americans persevered and made it out the struggle. African Americans has always been treated badly all groups of people and they always looked down on African Americans. Throughout the history involving African American, it showed the constant inferiority treatment. African Americans were slaves years ago, people still look at blacks as less important than other people. Slavery has a huge impact on our society today because people are still bias and unfair towards African Americans, most African Americans are still living in poverty and don’t have proper education beyond high school which is why they don’t have the equal opportunity for jobs. African Americans still continue to sit in the shadow behind white people.

When one considers the term “civilization”, a term that usually does not come to mind is “psyche”. These two terms seem to have nothing in common with each other, however, that is only if you think about trying to find similarities in them. What you are not doing is considering how they relate to each other. In this paper, I will be going through how civilization, or more specifically, society, affected the development of the black man’s psyche. The journey I will take you on will hopefully shed light on what civilization is, and how the development of a civilization can have adverse effects on the very people who live in the civilization.