Ethnic Group Evaluation

Abstract

This research paper is based on the ethnic difference in the African American and the American society. The main purpose of this research is to identify the social and ethnic difference in the two participants of the American society. Furthermore, this research also encompasses the myth related to the African society and the evidence which proves it as a myth.

Ethnic Group Evaluation

Introduction

Black Americans are actually African Americans and were formerly known as American Negroes are citizens of United States who have partial or complete ancestry from the Sub-Saharan Africa. A captive held from 1619 to 1865; and most of the African Americans are the descendent of that captive. Many of the black participants of the American society are the ones whose ancestors have traditionally immigrated to the United States (Zack, 2002). Some are the ones who have been forced immigrated to the United States and termed as slaves, and the others are moved through middle passage or have Central African roots. This research paper is based on the ethnic and the social problems because of the deregulation of the civil rights and the freedom act for the African Americans (www.understandingrace.org, 2008).

Discussion

History

In the 16th century, black Africans were forcibly taken to the Spanish and English colonies to serve American society as their slaves. Hence, the image of the black people was constituted as a slave, and they were continued to be treated as inferior. This migration continued till the late nineteenth century; however, the modes were changed. The result of this African American migration was adverse for the African society (Zack, 2002).

Immigration

In the United States, the migration of the Africans to America was force, free and a traditional migration. The transatlantic slave trade is an example of forced migration, in which Americans and European society forcefully captivate Africans and carried them to America to serve them as their slaves. The reason behind it was to flourish economy with diminished cost and exorbitant profits (www.understandingrace.org, 2008). The second forced migration was the internal slave trade in which the Americans transported them from Atlantic coast to the interior of the American South. Another migration was initiated by black Americans due to certain reasons in which they carried African people from the rural south to suburban north (Zack, 2002).

Assimilation

Assimilation arises when one group of people gives up their culture and merged into the culture of another prominent group in the society (Hooper, ...