African Americans - Throughout American and world history, we can see that dozens of cultures and people have gone through the process of deculturalization. Deculturalization is defined as the stripping of one's own culture. Culture is defined by a group of people from a particular region having similar social behaviors. The process of deculturalization is about getting to where a person's lifestyle does not involve their well-known culture, beliefs, values, and norms of their society. Deculturalization removes one culture from a group of people and gives them another culture. African American history plays a huge role in history today. Through decades of research, we can see the process this culture went through and how it was depressed and deculturalized. In school, we take the time to learn about African American history, but we fail to see the aspects that African Americans had to overcome to be where they are today. We also fail to see life for them and fundamentally understand the difficulties and processes they went through. African Americans were treated so terribly and poorly in the last century and they still are today. As a subordinate race to the white American race, African Americans have in no way been treated equally, fairly, humanely, or justly. Being in a subordinate position, African Americans are controlled by the superior white group in everything they do. Decades of research have shown us that African Americans have been depressed for hundreds of years. Although the Declaration of Independence stated that “All men are created equal,” this rule did not apply to African Americans. By the end of the Civil War, more than 180,000 black soldiers were in the U.S. Army. After the civil war, many Africa...... middle of paper ......k74757&pageid=icb.page414105>.• Ladenburg, Thomas . “Chapter 6.” Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on violence and integration. Np, and Web. December 10, 2013. • “Slavery and civil rights”. : Civil rights. Np, and Web. December 13, 2013.• .• “Slavery in America.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, and Web. December 12, 2013.• Smith, V. Chapman. “American Timeline of Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights.” American timeline of the fight against slavery and civil rights. Np, July 4, 1995. Web. December 12, 2013. • Spring, Joel H.. Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Print.