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xpress symbolically the discontentment about the restriction that imposed on them. It also expresses the Afro-American culture’s pleasure and feeling of collectivity. Hughes says with high appreciation that the black culture has potential charm and its unique rhythm is as strong as human’s heart and does not disappoint you forever. It is full of the sense of humor and has deep strength④. In art, the black’s art of painting and sculpture have deep impact to the world culture. The art of Afro-American culture has its own abstract, balance and no theatrical emotional painting. Their paintings focus on practical art with clear and brief line. The world’s great painter Picasso breathes the African primitivism into his own painting and gain good effects. Then, the white artists of America follow and breathe the Africa black culture into their own works⑤. In sculpture, the European artists make a deep rethinking after seeing African sculptural works. They think Rodin makes sculpture as soft as wax oil and the African sculpture is the real sculpture. Therefore, the European sculptors increase sculpture’s hardness and strength to represent people’s feeling of pain and psychosis of struggling in quick changing times with exaggerated distortion twist. Therefore, it is said that the cubism art which is the most fundamental revolution in the art history of 20th century was founded with the aid of the African culture’ spread⑥. With the spread of the black music, painting and sculpture art all over the world, the Afro-American culture not only makes deep effect to the world culture but also makes it recognize by more and more people. In America, the white artist also realizes that the black culture is no longer original, wild and lower culture. And this impels actively the continuing of Afro-American culture in America. C. The Idea of Double Self-identity of Afro-American It is to absorb the foreign cultures that the black culture can develop and expand in America. The Afro-American culture is not the pure black culture but the mixture of the black culture, the Africa aboriginal culture and the Christianity white culture. This proofs that the Afro-American’s idea of identify with foreign culture is one more important reason why the Afro-American culture should develop and expand. The American self-identity of the black concludes the following two aspects. First, they consider themselves as Americans. America is always called “melting port” of multinational culture. The minority of different complexion and cultures lives in the land of America and mixes and affects the white each other. Therefore, the American identity of the Afro-American is propitious for the black culture to absorb more foreign cultures and enriches its own culture. To the new Afro-Americans, Africa is only an abstract and mental root, the place where their ancestor had lived, the mother of Afro-American but not their own country. And this can be seen in many black writer’s works. In Afro-American Fragment, Hughes surveys the unnatural relationship between the Afro-American and the African bequest and says Africa is so old and far away and nothing is left except the history record. George. Schuyler points out that there is no problem for African to go back to Africa but we cannot as we have been no longer African for three hundred years. James Weldon Johnson expresses the same viewpoint, he emphasizes that though Afro-Americans’ origin is in Africa, they are complete