Intro African American Studies

The field of psychology was heavily influenced by Germans.

True

When was the first formal academic program in Black Studies established?

1968

Why can't White American and European philosophers give a scientifically ideal or value neutral standard for African American Studies?

Because European and White scholars have deemed the study of African American culture, aesthetic and historical experience as insignificant relative to universal learning and knowledge. Because in times past, European scholars have traditionally viewed African American and African philosophic perspectives with disdain. Correct Answer: All of the above

Who was the most visible public figure identified historically with the political philosophy of separatism?

Booker T. Washington

Leadership crisis and lack of unity in the Black community have no attitudinal origins in slavery.

False

Social psychology is a subfield that examines means of assessing, preventing, reducing, and rehabilitating psychological distress, disabilities, dysfunctional behaviors and enhancing psychological well-being

False

The field of sociology originated in North America

False

The racial-cultural ethos of African American cosmology is said to be oriented towards achieving harmony and unity with nature, collectivism, egalitarianism, spiritualism, and ritualism

False

Western Europeans took the plight of African descendants in American into consideration when developing sociological theory.

False

White American psychology is African race-specific in terms of its pholosophical origin and behavioral foundation.

False

Who was the foremost architect and promoter of racial integration and assimilationist as a political ideology during slavery and after emancipation?

Frederick Douglass

According to your textbook what is one common misperception of African American Studies?

It is limited in scope to the study of only the Black experience and culture

Who stated that, "a racist society cannot be healed merely by solving the problems of black victims...without solving the problems of the society which produced and sustains the predicament of blacks"?

Nathan Hare

What is defined as a large group of wo/men possessing in common certain physical characteristics with which are determined by heredity.

Race

Where was the first Black or African American Studies academic program initiated?

San Francisco State College

Which family theory does not discount the effects of slavery and racism but proposes that the survivability and adaptability of the African American family is a testament to its viability?

Strong-Family Theory

What biblical myth did Whites introduce to associate negative connotations of Blackness with the dark-skinned peoples of Africa?

The story of Noah's son, Ham, who was said to be banished to the depths of Africa for uncovering his father's nakedness

What is/are the principal goal(s) of African American Studies

To approach history with a critical eye and with the goal of educational and social improvement in order to effect social reform of the racist tradition of American Society To extend beyond traditional approaches developed by other disciplines To expand and impart knowledge through scholarly research, theoretical inquiry and policy analysis Correct Answer: All of the above

A psychiatric study of Blacks suggests that historical racism, environmental influences, and dysfunctional compensatory behavior rather than heredity accounted for gaps in IQ test scores.

True

Afrocentric psychologists argue that the African American experience is sufficiently different from that of White Americans and therefore warrants its own branch of study.

True

Black political ideologies are shaped more by efforts to construct a collective identity and the state of race relations in the United States at a particular time.

True

Cognitive psychology explores how humans acquire thoughts and ideas and ow they use and organize knowledge.

True

During the mid-twentieth century, it was implicitly and explicitly argued in some studies that Blacks were mentally and intellectually inferior.

True

Ideology is meant to include the various classifications of ideas, beliefs, theories, thoughts, or philosophies Blacks have expressed over the years in the liberation of their race.

True

Many Black sociologists view sociology and its theoretical approaches from a different perspective than Whites

True

No racially identifiable African American person can consciously or subconsciously escape the effects of racism and racial subjugation in the United States.

True

One of the most destructive psychological consequences of slavery was the loss or obfuscation of the African's distinct human identity.

True

Slavery must be understood as a form physical and psychological torture to grasp its horrendous and indelible effects

True

Sociology began to take root in the United States at the height of racial segregation, violence and oppression near the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries

True

The racial cultural ethos of the European American is characterized by it quest for control and mastery over nature, survival of the fittest ethic, future orientation, individualism, materialism, artificiality, intervention and aggression, White supremacy, and racism.

True

Which family theory suggests that slavery did affect Black family development but contends that instability has been caused more by the social, political, economic, and psychological effects of persistent racism since slavery.

Weak-Family Theory

Which type of psychology focuses on how individuals interact with other individuals interact with other individuals, social groups, clubs, churches, schools, families, neighborhoods, and the larger culture and environment

community psychology

Which segregation occurs where public officials deliberately conspire or manipulate to maintain or assure the existence of segregation?

dejure segregation

What defines individuals who are considered themselves, or are considered by others, to share common characteristics that differentiate them from other collectives in a society, within which they develop distinct cultural behavior?

ethnicity

According to your textbook, data indicates that over how many citizens of the United States of America are descendants of the continent of Africa?

over 30 million

What word, particularly in America, is a biological social, and cultural construct that conditions interpersonal relationships and collective perceptions of reality? (These biological characteristics are hereditarily transmitted, whereas those that are sociocultural and attitudinal are acquired or learned).

race

What is defined as a belief in the innate superiority of one's own race and as an ideology of racial privileges with enforceable practices of racial persecution and domination?

racism

This form of psychology examines how a person's thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by the presence of other people

social psychology

What is the study of human group life?

sociology

The Moynihan Report regarding the black family suggests that

the reason for deviancy and educational underachievement of youths is that the Black family is characterized by a large number female-headed households, illegitimate births, and absent fathers.