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 away of one's culture. Culture is defined by a group of people from a particular area with similar social behaviors. The process of deculturalization consists of ensuring that a person's lifestyle does not involve his culture, beliefs, values ​​and norms of his well-known society. Deculturalization removes one culture from a group of people and gives them another culture. African American history plays a huge role in today's history. From decades of research we can see the process this culture has gone through and how it has been depressed and deculturalized. In school we take the time to learn about African American history, but we fail to see the things that African Americans had to overcome to get to where they are today. We also fail to see life in their shoes and fundamentally understand the hardships and processes they have gone through. African Americans were treated so terribly and poorly over the last century and still are today. As a subordinate race to the white American race, African Americans were not treated equally, fairly, humanely, or justly under any circumstances. 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 states “All men are created equal,” that rule did not apply to African Americans. At the end of the Civil War more than 180,000 black soldiers were in the United States Army. After the civil war, many Africa...... middle of paper ......k74757&pageid=icb.page414105>.• Ladenburg, Thomas . "Chapter 6." Martin Luther King and Malcolm X talk about violence and integration. Np, nd Web. December 10, 2013. .• “Slavery and Civil Rights.” : Civil rights. Np, nd Web. 13 Dec. 2013.• .• "Slavery in America." History.com. A&E and Web Television Networks. December 12, 2013.• Smith, V. Chapman . "American Antislavery and Civil Rights Timeline." American Antislavery and Civil Rights Timeline. 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.