What is Black American Culture? (inspired by The Salon)

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Textbook def:


The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

We lost our indigenous language, art, religion, and social habits..........

But mostly, to me, culture is a mindset, or set of beliefs or standards that are adhered to in order to generate productive(or destructive) behavior..... and blacks in America don't have our own...

 

[IllmaticDelta]

One thing people must remember is the full blown modern AfroAmerican identity came about due to the struggle and jim crow laws. Before that, you had people with regional flavors culturally and you had different classes of AfroAmericans or what came to be Black Americans.


Origins of African-American Ethnicity or African-American Ethnic Traits


The newly formed Black Yankee ethnicity of the early 1800s differed from today’s African-American ethnicity. Modern African-American ethnic traits come from a post-bellum blending of three cultural streams: the Black Yankee ethnicity of 1830, the slave traditions of the antebellum South, and the free Creole or Mulatto elite traditions of the lower South. Each of the three sources provided elements of the religious, linguistic, and folkloric traditions found in today’s African-American ethnicity.30


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[Poitier]

But mostly, to me, culture is a mindset, or set of beliefs or standards that are adhered to in order to generate productive(or destructive) behavior.

No

thats called social norms. culture is tangible, norms are abstract.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

We lost our indigenous language, art, religion, and social habits..........

We didn't lose anything. AAVE, Gullah-Geeche and LA Creole are the dialects of language in Black Americans. Any other questions you have about Black American culture are found here-->

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/refu...merican-music-culture-is-europeanized.280978/

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Textbook def:


The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

shared "social habits" was the phrase I've been looking for this whole time

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It does in 2015. You even got gospel rappers. People who aren't influenced by hip hop are either senior citizens or close. They don't have an influence anymore

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

No

thats called social norms. culture is tangible, norms are abstract.

Social norms are mostly mindless acts that are taught so that you can assimilate into a society and has nothing to do with behavior or mindset from an ethical standpoint.

What I'm talking about is the actual engine that forces you think a certain way..... and this thought process manifests itself in tangible ways....

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

When most of the black population don't know their history, or can't trace the lineage in their family over 100 years, then yeah, its hard to have a true culture

 

[K.O.N.Y]

One thing people must remember is the full blown modern AfroAmerican identity came about due to the struggle and jim crow laws. Before that, you had people with regional flavors culturally and you had different classes of AfroAmericans or what came to be Black Americans.


Origins of African-American Ethnicity or African-American Ethnic Traits


The newly formed Black Yankee ethnicity of the early 1800s differed from today’s African-American ethnicity. Modern African-American ethnic traits come from a post-bellum blending of three cultural streams: the Black Yankee ethnicity of 1830, the slave traditions of the antebellum South, and the free Creole or Mulatto elite traditions of the lower South. Each of the three sources provided elements of the religious, linguistic, and folkloric traditions found in today’s African-American ethnicity.30


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Also the great migrations from the south that would fuel the north/urban centers black population as well
In new York Its hard to meet an AA new Yorker whose grandparents weren't from the south.

 

[Poitier]

What I'm talking about is the actual engine that forces you think a certain way.

society fam

 

[IllmaticDelta]

When most of the black population don't know their history, or can't trace the lineage in their family over 100 years, then yeah, its hard to have a true culture

No it's not.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Maybe I'm looking at this wrong..... Are yall saying that the contributions that were made to American culture by blacks is "our" culture?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

society fam

But 2nd generation Africans, Asians, Indians, rarely think like the white mainstream.... They don't mind assimilating like everyone else, but when it comes to ethics, views on marriage, religion, family, etc....... its vastly different from the mainstream

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Maybe I'm looking at this wrong..... Are yall saying that the contributions that were made to American culture by blacks is "our" culture?

Who is the "our" you're refering to?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Who is the "our" you're refering to?

blacks