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Afro-Cuban Music African music has had a major influence on Cuban culture beginning in the early 1550’s through slave trade. Thousands of slaves were brought to Spain in the 1400’s and eventually migrated to Cuba. Since these “Ladinos” were accustomed to Spanish culture and language, they easily were able to get by in Cuba and even escape slavery. As a result, Slave owners in Cuba brought more slaves directly from Africa. In 1526, a Royal Decree allowed slaves to buy their freedom, resulting

movement, there would be very few black films today.” The 1970’s and the 1980’s marked a the entry of a new generation of Afro American directors like Haile Gerima, Charles Burnet, Larry Clark, Pamela Jones, Jamaa Fanaka, Julie Dash, Robert Townsend or Spike Lee. They want to stand out and always required more artistic and financial control. Furthermore the emergence of the Afro-American director can be interpreted as a will to break the glass ceiling. Spike Lee is one of the directors who want to

example of syncretism with multiple cultures, religions and thought processes crashing. The major players during this time included Afro-Eurasia, in which the expansion of Islam introduced a new concept, the Islamic caliphate to Afro-Eurasian culture. Within the  Americas, powerful civilizations developed in Mesoamerica and the Andean region. The main groups in America and Afro-Eurasia were Han China, the western Roman Empire and Tawantinsuyu (The Incan Empire of Mesoamerica). Although contact between

In Afro-Ecuadorian communities throughout Ecuador, the focus of intercultural education programs materialized in many initiatives in the educational communities. At the school level, Afro-Ecuadorian policy leaders established two instructional institutions as the pioneers of ethno-educational studies in Ecuador: These are the Simon Bolivar University masters program in Afro-Andina studies in Quito and the high school program at the Colegio Nacional in the Cho Mira Valley region. There purpose was

Of the 5 million people who identify as Afro-Colombian (10% of the population of Colombia), 1.2 million live in rural areas. The highest concentrations of Afro-Colombians live on or near the Pacific and Caribbean Coasts, and two thirds of people living in rural communities live below the poverty line. Several development projects being planned and implemented (Plan Vive Digital: Ministry of Technology; Land and Rural Development Project-Colombia: USAID; Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Program: USAID;

My research of interest is to identify appropriate mental health approaches to the African American population. I am interested in examining how successful Afro-Centric approach to therapy would be for African American families who are dealing with mental health. Over the years of working in the mental health field, it seems that traditional counseling approaches are not practical with this population. Families are not trusting of the therapeutic relationships and there continues to be persistent

prevent full incorporation into society for Afro-Cubans. In order to combat this exclusion, blacks in Cuba began to assert themselves in spaces. It is through cultural and artistic expression that Afro-Cubans were able to establish not only communities of acceptance, but were able to form a movement of resistance towards the marginalization of ones identity that was being waged by the state. By utilizing artistic and cultural expression, such as film and dance, Afro-Cubans were able to take agency and fight

The political, cultural, and social improvements crosswise over Afro-Eurasia were fundamentally the same as the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa. The greater part of the political and scholarly pioneers needed to know the same inquiries with reference to who individuals were. There were city-states that had autonomous, self-representing urban areas. A typical society in Nubia was embraced by numerous Egyptian societies and political practices. Hellenism is the reception of Greek culture that assumed

point on. There were many changes that took place in everyday life in both the Americas and Afro Eurasia because of the events of this time period. Some of them more obvious than others, but all were important in their own respect. Advances in technology included farming techniques, written alphabet, weapon and firearm capabilities, and building techniques took place. Religion was also brought from Afro Eurasia into the Americas for the first time. There was also a huge exchange of plant life, which

into an Afro-Brazilian culture that still has an impact and exists today which is also still celebrated in Brazil. I believe that without slavery, many of the importance of both sides of society selling slaves and buying slaves would not have shaped humanity in the modern world. “Two centuries had seen African and European cultural religious and linguistic habits merging into unique Afro-Brazilian social and religious customs, music, and storytelling (Nellis 62).” The cultural influence of Afro-Brazilians