# African American History and Culture

- By: Lumen Learning
- Publisher: Lumen Learning
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/National_History/African_American_History_and_Culture)
- Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/National_History/African_American_History_and_Culture
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/human-22721/pdf

It is important to learn about the history and heritage of African Americans that extends back into antiquity because throughout slavery and afterwards, people of European descent advanced what anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits called the “Myths of the Negro Past.