All forms of Afro-Caribbean dance have their roots in Africa. In the 15th to 18th century when slaves were being brought over to America from Africa, they were mostly gathered from the western coast of North Senegal and South Angola. The reason for most of them coming from this region is because th...

African American Culture Culture is not a fixed phenomenon, nor is it the same in all places or to all people. It is relative to time, place, and particular people. Learning about other people can help us to understand ourselves and to be better world citizens. One of the most common ways of...

An exceptional innovator and pioneer, Katherine Dunham revolutionized the dance world. Her blend of cultural anthropology with the artistic genre of dance in the early 1930's, produced groundbreaking forms of movement (known today as the Dunham technique), and established black dance as an art f...

The Role of Third Cinema Third Cinema as Guardian of Popular Memory refers to popular memory as an oral historiography of the Third World folklore, serving as an account of memories passed from generation to generation. Unlike traditional Western Cinema, like that of the United States which is ...

The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave was an interesting view point told by Cuban runaway slave, Esteban Montejo, and edited by Miguel Barnet. This essay depicts Montejo's experience with slavery during the late 1800's and the early 1900's. It also gives insight to the life and treatme...

Racism is something that has existed since the beginning of time. For centuries people have argued whether whites and non- whites were equal and should therefore have equal rights. My position is that all people and unique and should be treated in the same way. In this essay I will be arguing ag...

Slavery in America started when the New World was first discovered. It started off when the first colonists came to the Americas and in order to survive they needed to farm the land and grow crops. Since they were not accustomed for the hot sun and were too lazy for hard labor. In order to survive...

CULTURAL IDENTITY IN HEART OF DARKNESS A text reflects the cultural identity of the society it was written in, through its construction of race gender, class and ethnicity. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a recount of Marlow's journey through Africa. It is seen by some as a critique of...

The empire of Ghana was an important black trading state in West Africa. Arab camel caravans brought salt and copper from mines in the Sahara and dried fruits from North Africa to Ghana's markets. There, the products were traded for gold, ivory, and slaves from regions south of Ghana. Ghanaian jewe...