Mrs E's Afronics
Needed, African and Afro-American Studies
There is a "need for (Afronics: Essence of the Afro American & African Experience)" the African Experience can be summed up as from the time thre first African arrived in the Virginia Colony in 1619 to the present date. We don't know if this African was a slave or Indentured ServantsThe African American experience has been express theough Black History, Literature,, Blues, Spirituals, Gospel , Hip Hop, and Classical Music
Where did these African slaves Come From? Africa to be sure, but contrary to what most of us were taught, and what we learned from Tarzen Movies, Africa is a Continent not a Country (see:The Complete Concise History of The Slave Trade .Countries involved were Senegal, Sierra Leone, Congo, Angola, Nigeria
According to Anthropologist, Mankind and Civilizations originated out of Africa.The history of Africa begins with the first emergence of Homo sapiens in East Africa, continuing into its modern present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. (Currently 50+ Country States).
Historians Continually seek to document the journey of a People and Culture of the African Diaspora transplanted, primarily by the Slave trade thru out the world. The viewpoint that Africans enslaved Africans is misleading in this is tends treat the "Continent of Africa" as a single Country. This allows the Reader scholar, to subtly call into question the humanity of all Africans.
Where did the first Trans-Atlantic slaves come from? At the beginning of the 1600s, slaves for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade were sourced in Senegambia and the Windward Coast. This region had had a long history of providing slaves for the Islamic Trans-Saharan Trade. Around 1650 The Kingdom of the Kongo, which the Portuguese had ties with, started exporting slaves. The focus of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade moved to here and neighbouring northern Angola (grouped together on the table and map as west-central Africa).
Kongo and Angola would continue to be substantial exporters of slaves until the nineteenth century. Senegambia would provide a steady trickle of slaves through the centuries, but never on the same scale as the other regions of Africa.
Increasing penetration into the Americas by the Portuguese created more demand for labour in Brazil--primarily for farming and mining. Slave-based economies quickly spread to The Caribbean:and the southern portion of what is today the United States, where Dutch traders brought the first African Slaves in 1619. These areas all developed an insatiable demand for slaves.
As European nations grew more powerful, especially Portugal , Spain, France, Great Britain , and Netherlands,, they began vying for control of the African slave trade, with little effect on the local African and Arab trading. Great Britain's existing colonies in the Lesser Antilles and their effective naval control of the Mid Atlantic forced other countries to abandon their enterprises due to inefficiency in cost. The English crown provided a charter giving the Royal African Company ...monopoly over the African slave routes until 1712.
Mrs. E's Afronics is a work in progress, searching for a wide range of Academic Resources documenting the existence and depth of African/African American Culture, past, present and future. We chose Amazon.com as our Source for Black History, Literature. Blues, Spirituals, Gospel, Hip Hop, Classical and Jazz pages, we appreciate your feedback.
Africa Studies for all 54 Nations on the Continent of Africa. These links are automatically updated by Amazon.com
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A sample curriculum for African American Studies,
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There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies" because, Many Historians and Scholars (i.e. Lerone Bennett, JR.) have Documented our African Heritage from West Africa before we were taken "Hostage" and brought to the Americas and Caribbean, as Slave labor, thru Reconstruction, the Jim Crow ere, the Civil Rights turmoil, to the present time..
There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies" because, Having its origins in the slave narratives and the folktales transmitted orally during that period, the literature of the African American has been rich and varied. Beginning with the first published work of fiction Clotel: Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (Bedford Cultural Editions) in 1853, continuing under the influence of W.E.B. Du Bois during the first part of this century, and reaching a flowering during the Harlem Renaissance, major contributions have been made to American literature. Today African American writers , such as Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, and Maya Angelou are recognized as among the most significant and popular authors in this country
There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies" because, Alan Lomax states that the blues tradition was considered to be a masculine discipline (although some of the first blues songs heard by whites were sung by 'lady' blues singers like Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith) and not many black women were to be found singing the blues in the juke-joints. The Southern prisons also contributed considerably to the blues tradition through work songs and the songs of death row and murder, prostitutes, the warden, the hot sun, and a hundred other privations. (Lomax) The prison road crews and work gangs where were many bluesmen found their songs, and where many other blacks simply became familiar with the same songs. The Charters Archive of Blues and Vernacular African American Music--- Samuel Charters has been documenting African American music for over 50 years, starting as a field recorder for Folkways Records in 1954.(Read More)
There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies because The lyrics of negro spirituals were tightly linked with the lives of their authors: slaves. While work songs dealt only with their daily life, spirituals were inspired by the message of Jesus Christ and his Good News (Gospel) of the Bible, "You can be saved". They are different from hymns and psalms, because they were a way of sharing the hard condition of being a slave.
There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies" because,Tribal African music of four hundred years ago differed from European and white American music in one major regard: secular music did not exist in African traditions. Besides sacred music, Europeans sang about love, war, and drinking, as well as the recent historical events of nearby villages, or far off countries. While many of these songs mentioned God in some manner, many still remained secular and popular among the village and country folk.
By the 1990s any sound source was considered fair game and rap artists borrowed sounds from such disparate sources as Israeli folk music, bebop jazz records, and television news broadcasts.
There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies, African Americans have had a profound impact on the development of music in the United States. While their role in the history of American popular and folk music is now generally acknowledged and appreciated, their influence within the "classical" music world has received little attention--even within the African American community (Read More)
There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies because Jazz Is an original American musical art form originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans.
There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies" because,Like other people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere, the progenitors of the overwhelming majority of African Americans were brought to North America as African slaves between the 1600s and 1807.They came from eight distinct slave-trading regions in Africa.
Historians of African and African American History have sought to discover and document contributions made to the civilizations of the world, particularly America and the former colonies, by the people of African origan.
Native American Explore the historic connection of the Africans and Native Americans.
Queer studies is the study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. There are a growing number of college courses in this area, and currently there are over 40 certificate and degree granting programs with at least five institutions in the United States offering an undergraduate major; a growing number of similar courses are offered in countries other than the USA.
Critical White Studies
There is a "need for African and Afro-American Studies" because, A central tenet of whiteness studies is a reading of history and its effects on the present, inspired by postmodernism and historicism, in which the very concept of race is said to have been socially constructed in order to justify discrimination against non-whites.
**** Barack Obama and African American Empowerment: The Rise of Black America's New Leadership (Critical Black Studies)
*****--After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965 (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century)
Homeschooling African-American children
For some, the term "homeschooling" might evoke images of conservative Christian families or isolated rural areas. But according to the National Center for Education Studies, the number of African Americans being home schooled is growing.
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Alan Lomax states that the blues tradition was considered to be a masculine discipline (although some of the first blues songs heard by whites were sung by 'lady' blues singers like Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith) and not many black women were to be found singing the blues in the juke-joints. The Southern prisons also contributed considerably to the blues tradition through work songs and the songs of death row and murder, prostitutes, the warden, the hot sun, and a hundred other privations. (Lomax) The prison road crews and work gangs where were many bluesmen found their songs, and where many other blacks simply became familiar with the same songs.
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