Some Factors in the Development of Negro Social Institutions in The United States

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ID2199132
AuthorsGuy B Johnson (corresponding author)
Year1934
Volume40
Issue3
Pages329-337
Publication date1934-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/216746
OpenAlexW1996610748
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The assimilation of Negroes into the white culture is attributable largely to the conditions of the first hundred years of slavery in the Upper South. White institutional complexes have tended to be adopted entire from the formal social institutions to the minor modes of everyday behavior. The lag which exists between Negro and white institutions in any given area is due to the fact that acculturation was incomplete at the time of emancipation, that there has since been increasing separation of the races, and especially that economic drag has re-enforced cultural isolation and retarded the rate of cultural change among the Negro population. Cultural isolation, race prejudice, and economic drag have caused the intensification of those Negro institutions which offer opportunities for leadership and self-expression within the Negro group, particularly the church and the lodge. Race consciousness since emancipation has given rise to various agencies for racial solidarity, the Negro press being the most important. In view of the ever increasing likeness of white and Negro culture there can be no posibility of Negroes creating a unique type of culture in the United States

Acculturation · Consciousness · Emancipation · Ethnic group · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Prejudice (legal term) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Solidarity · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society

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