AdministratorWho was a Negro?
Definition of Negro 1 dated, often offensive : a person of Black African ancestry. 2 dated, often offensive : a member of a group of people formerly considered to constitute a race (see race entry 1 sense 1a) of humans having African ancestry and classified according to physical traits (such as dark skin pigmentation)
Who are the Negroes in history?
Negro was also used of the peoples of West Africa in old maps labelled Negroland, an area stretching along the Niger River. From the 18th century to the late 1960s, negro (later capitalized) was considered to be the proper English-language term for people of black African origin.
Where did the black man come from?
Numerous communities of dark-skinned peoples are present in North Africa, some dating from prehistoric communities. Others descend from migrants via the historical trans-Saharan trade or, after the Arab invasions of North Africa in the 7th century, from slaves from the trans-Saharan slave trade in North Africa.
What was the goal of the Moynihan Report?
In the introduction to his report, Moynihan said that “the gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening.” He also said that the collapse of the nuclear family in the black lower class would preserve the gap between possibilities for Negroes and other groups and favor other ethnic groups.
Why was the Book of Negroes created?
The British refused to return the slaves, to whom they had promised freedom during the war for joining their cause. The detailed records were created to document the freed people whom the British resettled in Nova Scotia, along with other Loyalists.
How have critics of the 1965 Moynihan report responded to the claim that matriarchy is a main source of the problems in the African American family?
How have critics of the 1965 Moynihan report responded to the claim that matriarchy is a main source of the problems of the African American family? -They see matriarchy as the result, not the cause, of problems among African American families.
What is the tangle of pathology?
Moynihan seemed to confirm that African Americans lived in a “culture of poverty,” writing that they lived in a “tangle of pathology [that] is capable of perpetuating itself without assistance from the white world” (Moynihan 1965, 47).