This thesis is to study the reasons why the Afro-American culture has survived from the aspect of its history. It includes many factors such as the excellent component of the Afro-American culture, the black’s striving, and the assistant of the white and so on. Meanwhile, it also refers to some main culture movements in the process of Afro-American culture development and some figures that have made great contribution to the survival and development of Afro-American culture. Among these factors, the basic reason of survival is the excellent component of the Afro-American culture, as it provides original power for the spread of the black culture and long-drawn life-force for the continuing of the black culture. It is the black’ struggle that impels the survival of the black culture, and injects new energy for its development. A good many factors, such as the elder’s instruction and the white’s help create advantageous exterior condition. According to the study of the reasons for the survival of Afro-American culture, we can find that only do Afro-Americans know their history and culture that they can have more encyclopedical and good-tempered attitude toward the world, place their self-worth properly, receive extra culture on the condition of preserving traditional cultural and make it melt with American culture and finally make the Afro-American culture be out of the effects of history and reality to obtain real freedom and development.
Key Words
Afro-American culture; cultural diversity; cultural movement of the black; national consciousness
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Introduction..................................................................1
I. The Origin and Development of Afro-American Culture........................2
II. The Effects of Afro-American Culture......................................2
Ⅲ. The Excellent Component of the Afro-American Culture......................3
A. The Comparability of the Ancestor’s Culture............................3
B. The Original and Unvarnished Character of the Afro-American Culture.....4
C. The Idea of Double Self-identity of Afro-American.......................5
Ⅳ. The Struggle that the Afro-American had Made..............................7
Ⅴ. The Reformation of Nationality Consciousness of the Black.................8
Ⅵ. The Care and Instruction of the Elder Generation..........................9
Ⅶ. The Help of the White.....................................................10
Ⅷ. Promotion of Culture Movement.............................................11
A. The American Modern Black Culture Reformation.............................11
B. The New Black Culture Movement..........................................11
C. The American Civil Rights Movement of 1960s.............................11
D. Other Culture Movements ................................................12
Ⅸ. Other Factors ............................................................12
A. Not Yielding to the Christianization of the White.......................13
B. Culture Diversity ......................................................13
Conclusionv...................................................................14
Acknowledgements..............................................................15
Notes.........................................................................16
Bibliography..................................................................17
