African Americans were a colonized minority that formed a centrifugal relationship with the dominant White group.

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African Americans were not a colonized minority in the traditional sense of colonization; they were forcibly brought to the United States primarily as slaves, which differs from the dynamics of colonization where a foreign power takes control of an area and its people. Their relationship with the dominant White group was characterized by systemic racism and segregation, rather than a centrifugal relationship which implies a mutual distancing or separation by different groups within a society.

African Americans Were a Colonized Minority That Formed a Centrifugal