The Effects Of White Domination On African American In The United State

Abstract

This study is about white domination and its effects on African American life in the early twentieth centuryup to the decade of the 1940s. White domination is an effort done by the white people to maintain ‘White-Superiority’and ‘Black-Inferiority’. In this case many African Americans have problem or difficulties in the aspect of their life. Thisstudy uses American Studies approach, focusing on interdisciplinary approach that involves historical, literacy,sociological and cultural. The result of study shows that, under white domination, the African Americans are theoppressed people. Being the oppressed people, they are unjustly treated by the white ones through racial prejudice,discrimination, and segregation. So, they have some problems in the aspects of their life; they are regarded as inferiorcreatures, and they do not have equalities in education, employment, law protection or law enforcement, and in theother aspects of socio-cultural life. As being unjustly treated, the African Americans protest toward the arbitration of thewhite ones of them.. The protest has its impact on both the African American and White Americans. In one hand itencourages the former to resurrect and develop their effort of obtaining their rights.