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Most African Americans today descend from people forcibly brought to what is now the United States as slaves. Slaves were largely obtained from western and central Africa and came from diverse cultural backgrounds and spoke different languages. A creole language known as Ebonics emerged which allowed communication across different linguistic backgrounds. African Americans largely lived in the rural south until after World War II. Afterwards, large numbers migrated north to major cities. Beginning in the 1970s, the majority of African Americans were city-dwellers. African Americans share a common origin in Africa as well as common struggle against “racial” discrimination and prejudice, even for those in the highest social strata.

Talking Black

Culture Summary

The color-blind

Deep South

Children of bondage

Black metropolis

The Philadelphia Negro

Special report on Negro domestic service in the Seventh Ward, Philadelphia

Blacked out

Black Corona

Drylongso

Soulside

Afro-Americans

Spout Spring

Black like this

Resistance and resilience

Harlem

Black Americans

After freedom

The eighth generation

Purity, soul food, and Sunni Islam

All our kin

Community in a Black Pentecostal church

Family and childhood in a Southern Negro community

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Abrahams, Roger D.	Talking Black	1976
Asante, Molefi K.	Culture Summary	2010
Baker, Lee D.	The color-blind	1998
Davis, Allison	Deep South	1941
Davis, Allison	Children of bondage	1958
Drake, St. Clair	Black metropolis	1970
Drake, St. Clair	Black metropolis	1970
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)	The Philadelphia Negro	1967
Eaton, Isabel	Special report on Negro domestic service in the Seventh Ward, Philadelphia	1967
Fordham, Signithia	Blacked out	1996
Gregory, Steven	Black Corona	1998
Gwaltney, John Langston	Drylongso	1981
Hannerz, Ulf	Soulside	1969
Holt, Thomas C.	Afro-Americans	1980
Kunkel, Peter H.	Spout Spring	1971
Mahon, Maureen	Black like this	2000
Mullings, Leith	Resistance and resilience	2005
Osofsky, Gilbert	Harlem	1971
Pinkney, Alphonso	Black Americans	1975
Powdermaker, Hortense	After freedom	1968
Rohrer, John H. (John Harrison)	The eighth generation	1960
Rouse, Carolyn Moxley	Purity, soul food, and Sunni Islam	2004
Stack, Carol B.	All our kin	1997
Williams, Melvin D.	Community in a Black Pentecostal church	1974
Young, Virginia Heyer	Family and childhood in a Southern Negro community	1970

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