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of development of various cultures. However, since 1960s, the “nation renaissance” has raised all over the world and it advocates to make the cultural diversity of preserving their own traditional culture as their guide. In this situation, the Afro-Americans, to some extent, develop their culture through seeking the root of their culture and preserving their culture. Conclusion This thesis analyzes the reasons why the Afro-American culture has survived from several aspects: the excellent component of the Afro-American culture, the black’s struggle, the elder’s instruction and the white’s help. Among these factors, the basic reason of survival is the excellent component of the Afro-American culture, as it provides original power for the spread of black culture and long-drawn life-force for the continuing of black culture; it is the black’ struggle that impels the survival of black culture, and injects new energy for its development. A good many factors, such as the elder’s instruction and the white’s help create advantageous exterior condition. According to the study of the reason for the survival of Afro-American culture, we can find that the black culture both excluding from white culture with violence and fetishizing the white culture are prejudiced viewpoint because they do not really understand the culture history. Only do Afro-Americans know their history and their own culture they can have more encyclopedical and good-tempered attitude toward the world, place their self-worth properly, receive other cultures on the condition of preserving traditional culture and make it melt with American culture and finally make the Afro-American culture be out of the effects of history and reality to obtain real freedom and development. Acknowledgements Upon the completion of the thesis, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Mr. Jiang Lu. Without his help and encouragement, my thesis would have been impossible. When I was writing this paper, he gave me careful direction and constant encouragement from choosing topic to finishing it. In a word, he helps me so much in my writing, I really want to say thanks to him. I would also like to extend my gratitude to all the teachers at School of Foreign Languages Department for their care and guidance. In addition, I want to give my thanks to our college for providing the condition of looking up data for my thesis, and thank all the friends around me for their help. Notes ①. John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World , 1400 - 1800, Cambridge University Press,1998: P194 - 195. ②. Walsh, Lorena S. From Calabar to Carter’ s Grove: the History of a Virginia Slave Community, The University Press of Virginia, 1997: P112. ③. 黄卫峰.美国新黑人文化运动的特点[J].学术论坛，2002,(5). ④. 丹尼尔.布尔斯廷.美国人民主历程[M].北京:生活.读书.新知三联书店,1993: 335-336. ⑤. 陈志杰.美国内战前黑人宗教文化刍议[J].解放军外国语学院学报，2004,(2). ⑥. 陈致远.多元文化的现代美国.[M]. 成都:四川人民出版社，2003. ⑦. 胡锦山.美国黑人城市化与五六十年代黑人民权运动[J].厦门大学学报,1998,(2). ⑧. 马克垚主编.世界文明史[M]. 北京:北京大学出版社, 2004: 1315-1323. ⑨. 赵曙光.初探非洲黑人音乐对南北美洲音乐文化发展的影响[J].安阳工学院学报，2005,(5). ⑩. 潘伟.美国黑人灵歌的起源及文化属性[J].周口师范学院学报，2003，(4) . Bibliography [1] Bontemps, Arna. The Awakening: A Memoir. Arna Bontemps. The Harlem Renaissance Remembered. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972: 23. [2] Eltis, David. The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment . William and Mary Quarterly, Vol.58, No.1, 2001,(1). [3] Dumenil, Lynn. The Modern Temper: