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African Cultural Retentions in Black American Families
Anglade, Kevin Jerry
Anglade, Kevin Jerry
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2025-08
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Africology and African American Studies
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https://doi.org/10.34944/2g04-k163
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This study uses an Afrocentric paradigmatic framework to examine the Black American family as a social institution. It details the challenges this familial organization has endured over several centuries because of European cultural hegemony. In various instances, the Euro-American colonial system has miseducated, despiritualized, and depoliticized Black American families and forced an adoption of European patriarchal culture. As a result, Black Americans may not acknowledge African cultural retentions by way of European acculturation. Therefore, within this work a proposed theoretical framing uses Kmt G. Shockley’s concept of cultural re-attachment to offer new interpretations and solutions to the past, present, and future of Black American families. Firstly, through a case study of the Gullah Family on the coastal sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, this study explores cultural retentions of a particular African American population. In doing so, it uncovers the social realities of a people, and the adaptations experienced in insolation of slaveholders in comparison to its mainland African American counterparts. Secondly, through the institutions of spirituality and education, my aim is to illustrate the ways in which the African American family can sustain cultural continuity despite Euro-American interference moving forward. By way of cultural re-attachment, the Afrocentric paradigm is utilized alongside the Colonial and Worldview paradigms to culturally relocate and reorient African American families within their own existing history to reestablish and further advance their ideals, values, and traditions of cultural identity.
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