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Multicultural Communication/African Americans

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A 12 page research paper that examines the topic of African American communication within the context of the overall topic of multiculturalism. The writer argues that African American communication styles demonstrates the importance of, first of all, understanding the nuances and significance of African American communication and also why a multicultural approach to education is imperative in aiding the academic success of African American children, as well as in fostering improved race relations. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

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12 pages (~225 words per page)

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Peoples of African descent, even after slavery was abolished, were still kept isolated from mainstream culture and society by racial bias. The past forms a lingering legacy that still affects communication among African Americans, and frequently provides an obstacle to communication between African Americans and European-descended Americans. An examination of African American communication within the context of the overall topic of multiculturalism demonstrates the importance of, first of all, understanding the nuances and significance of African American communication and also why a multicultural approach to education is imperative in aiding the academic success of African American children, as well as in fostering improved race relations. African Americans, while generally perceived as a homogenous group by mainstream society, have a diverse heritage. When Africans arrived in the Americas, in chains, they got off the ships speaking over a hundred different languages -- Yoruba, Wolof, Asante, Fante, Ga, Ewe, Ijo, Efik, Mande and Congo, just to name a few (Asante, 1998). Each of these African languages were as different in their construction as European languages are from one another. No matter where they found themselves in the New World, Africans adapted to the European languages that they heard, which was predominantly Spanish in South America. In North America, Africans were faced with the task of coping with whites who predominantly spoke English. The African peoples brought to the US adapted by creating a language that derived its vocabulary from English, but was molded out of numerous African languages, using English lexical items (Asante, 1998). In 1973, Dr. Robert Williams finally brought a name to this ingenious linguistic survival device when he coined a phrase for this language, "Ebonics," which he derived by combining "ebony" (black) with "phonics" (sound) (Barron, 1996). Languages are created by a community of ...

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