Stereotypes and culture appropriation of African American

Abstract

Culture plays an important role in identifying an individual or a group who belongs to a common community in this world. The African American culture is the most significant task that attracts scholars’ attention. African-American spirituals developed out of the agony of individuals stripped of their home and identity forced to travel to an unknown land and become slaves, slave labor was excruciating in demeaning spending countless hours of backbreaking labor under the Sun slaves began singing songs to pass the time through several generations work songs and spirituals developed as ways to pass the time and communicate with one another, work songs focused on the rough conditions faced on a daily basis slaves were prohibited from talking about their master overseers so they often incorporated code words to mention subjects that were off-limits , slaves were often expected to sing by the overseer if they were being silent constantly being oppressed and physically abused these songs took on a sorrowful tune and told stories of hardship and struggle. Over centuries the issue of cultural appropriation and stereotypes were and still are issues that faces African Americans in their daily life. The African American culture is the transformation of blacks from the status of an object to a subject. After living in very difficult conditions of life under the mercy of the oppressed man as slaves or rather as animals, even they did not have a proper name to identify with, there for cultural appropriation was a form of racism to degrade blacks from their humanity and to be mocked.