African Americans

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AFRICAN AMERICANS

Introduction

African Americans are black people who hold American nationality or reside in America , though their roots could be in any black nation or originated from Africa . Before the term African American came into use many Americans favored Black American before African American gradually replaced it . In US , the term is mostly used to refer to Americans whose descendants have African origins . The majority of these African - Americans are the descendants of enslaved Africans transported from Central as

well as West Africa to the United States during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade . Others are said to have arrived through more recent imagination from South America , Africa as well as Caribbean

The growth of the culture of African Americans is dated back in the days of slave trade as early as 16th Century to 1865 . From 1640s up to 1865 Africans were legally enslaved within the boundaries of the present United States , mostly by whites but also by some American Indians as well as free blacks . The first records of Africa slavery in colonial America is said to have occurred in 1619 , which is connected with the Dutch

Many slaves used to die this prompted the surviving slaves to start reproducing at a very high rate . When slave trade ended in 1865 , the freedom that the African Americans were already enjoying made them increase in population even more . By the year 2005 , the growth in percentage had reached approximately 12 .1 or at least 349 million of the May 2007 the unemployment rate of the African American was contributing to 8 .5 to all the unemployment cases

Educational Practices

The educational practices that have affected the African Americans positively are not as many as those that have affected them negatively Some of those practices that affected them positively include the following : - the freedom of accessing all educational levels in the United States , open employment opportunities for all of them after completing school , school funding projects which do not make decisions based on race . The freedom of accessing all levels of education is contained in the American system of education this should cater for all citizens of America . All citizens of America which are among the minority group are entitled to enjoy equal freedom . Often employment opportunities for all the Americans regardless of the race is also regulated and enforced by their contributions . As such the African Americans who pass through the education system should secure employment like any other American . School funding projects , which do not consider racial segregation , may be because of neutrality of senators in charge who make sure that all schools are funded regardless of the race (Blacks 456

The educational practices that have affected the African Americans negatively can all be summarized as educational systems founded on the basis of racism . This is evident in the performance of African American students in mathematics as well as science subjects . The teachers have failed to acknowledge the fact that African Americans are...