What is Black American Culture? (inspired by The Salon)

[OfTheCross]

Homegirl in the salon asked how "our" boy would react (
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/what-would-our-boys-do.305846/ )


... I'm thinking who knows.. Depends on how they got raised. But then I wondered...what are the cultural things that unite the Black American community?

Obviously, the shared struggle of living in America. But what are some other things?

Are you comfortable saying that most blacks listen to R&B and rap?

Or that most like grits or whatever stereotype you can think of..

I've come across so many different black ppl that it doesn't seem to me like there's a unified culture, tbh

What say you?

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Hip-hop, R&B, soul food, project/inner city/hood culture.

That's all I can think of.

I hate to say it, but there really isn't much that can constitute black culture in America...but it's ten times more than what white culture is (nothing).

I'm African though...and West Indian...we got our own culture. America is just a community culture and a clusterfukk in itself.

 

[Poitier]

Modern music, ubran/street wear, soul food, Southern baptist churches, HBCUs, AA literature/art/movies and the vast array of dances.

This idea that AA don't have culture is dumb and idiotic, and honestly, AA culture is just as rich as most places claiming to have "their own culture"

I'll let @IllmaticDelta and @K.O.N.Y @Anghellic put in work though

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Modern music, ubran/street wear, soul food, Southern baptist churches, HBCUs, AA literature/art/movies and the vast array of dances.

This idea that AA don't have culture is dumb and idiotic, and honestly, AA culture is just as rich as most places claiming to have "their own culture"

I'll let @IllmaticDelta and @K.O.N.Y @Anghellic put in work though

to add on

Dance. AAVE and Urban AAVE. That intangible black identity that permeates throughout our population that naturally comes to us. The cool factor we're known for. Fashion and urban fashion

edit-Actually some of these overlap yours

 

[BmoreGorilla]

in 2015 hip hop is black culture. It defines the music we listen to the most, how we dress, and how we talk. For better or for worse

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Hip-hop, R&B, soul food, project/inner city/hood culture.

That's all I can think of.

I hate to say it, but there really isn't much that can constitute black culture in America...but it's ten times more than what white culture is (nothing).

I'm African though...and West Indian...we got our own culture. America is just a community culture and a clusterfukk in itself.

Its also important to note the more southern element that exist amongst our culture,basically everywhere outside the northeast,parts of the Midwest etc. A lot of non American blacks aren't exposed to that side even though its way bigger than northern urban culture, as far as size is concerned

 

[Blackout]

Hip Hop/Rap

At the moment racist white people are trying hard to steal it.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Hip Hop/Rap

At the moment racist white people are trying hard to steal it.

Never understood why people say this. Hip hop rap is a young peoples culture and extremely popular. But is grandma listening to lil wayne?

Hip hop is simply a sub-section of AA culture

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Never understood why people say this. Hip hop rap is a young peoples culture and extremely popular. But is grandma listening to lil wayne?

Hip hop is simply a sub-section of AA culture

Hip hop is not young people's culture anymore. The biggest names in hip hop are 30+ or pushing it. Its black culture period.

Baby boom generation is . You have a whole generation where hip hop is all they kno. Im at least old enough to remember when R&B was king but that's dead now. I got aunts in their 50s who have loved hip hop since the early 80s and still do. It hasn't been a subsection since 2000 if you ask me

 

[Blackout]

Never understood why people say this. Hip hop rap is a young peoples culture and extremely popular. But is grandma listening to lil wayne?

Hip hop is simply a sub-section of AA culture

It's relatively new but it's still AA culture.

 

[OfTheCross]

Aside from hip hop anything like what's mentioned in that other thread?

How whatever culture that was values their women a certain way.

Or how Jews are cheap.

What are some behavioral things that identify as black culture.

I'd say being loud and late for everything is one, but every ethnic group thinks they're loud and late for stuff...

 

[JBoy]

there are so many subsections within any culture that it is hard to really define what exactly a specific culture makes up, I guess the best way to put it is our culture is a makeup of all kinds of creolized cultures here in America based around a diasporan identity from being ripped away from Africa

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Hip hop is not young people's culture anymore. The biggest names in hip hop are 30+ or pushing it. Its black culture period.

Baby boom generation is . You have a whole generation where hip hop is all they kno. Im at least old enough to remember when R&B was king but that's dead now. I got aunts in their 50s who have loved hip hop since the early 80s and still do. It hasn't been a subsection since 2000 if you ask me

older cats like songs here and there. But most I know listen to r&b,smooth jazz etc

When you think of culture and all that it encompasses Hip hop is only a subsection of AA culture

 

[OfTheCross]

there are so many subsections within any culture that it is hard to really define what exactly a specific culture makes up, I guess the best way to put it is our culture is a makeup of all kinds of creolized cultures here in America based around a diasporan identity from being ripped away from Africa

That's what I've encountered. But the peeps above have posted what they thought a majority of black Americans identify with

 

[DAlbert]

African Americans don't get to determine what is their culture