African American family: The two models of such families
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Summary
This essay aims to reinforce both afrocentric and revisionist models of the African-American family. An integral part of this argument will be to deny cultural deficit theory, and instead to focus on how African cultures blended together with each other and simultaneously adapted to New World oppression. This argument revolves around the resilience of Africanity, and we will therefore necessarily consider social transmission of African values across generations. Specifically, we will consider the valuation of biological family ties and the flexibility of family boundaries, and consider illustrations of these concepts found in Toni Morrison’s novel, “Beloved” (1988), which offers us an intimate glimpse of the African-American family during the antebellum and reconstruction eras.
Table of Contents
- A singular 'African culture,' or multiple cultures.
- Family-related aspects of African cultural.
- Pertinent examples from Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'.
- The dynamism of the African-American family.
- Cultural form generalized among the surrounding community.
- Conclusion.
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