Culture is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought typical of a population or community at a given times. (Webster's II New College Dictionary pg. 274)Culture is also the modes of thought, behavior, and production that are handed down from one generation to the next by means of communication interaction-through speech, gestures, writing, building, and all other communication among humans - rather by genetic transmission of heredity. (The Sociological Imagination pg.6) Although I am part of the American culture, I consider my cultural heritage to be with that of the African American society. Black culture is a phenomenal subject representing the life style, imagination an

Language and gestures are another important identity of the African American culture. There are two subdivisions of our language that area called slang and Ebonics. Slang and Ebonics are just codes for the English language. Gestures in our culture are also a means of communication. For example, when people of the African American culture want to speak to one and another or say hello they nod their heads upward. Another example of gestures is the rolling of the eyes. These gestures suggest that someone is ignoring or calling the person they are speaking with a liar. Basically our way of communication is the same as the next culture except African Americans try to be communicating with unity among their culture.

The four most popular and unique categories of Black music are Rhythm and Blues, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel. Rhythm and Blues is a combination of the s

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