African American studies test 1 Ch 1-3 quiz study
Segregation
A policy of forced separation
14th Amendment
Equal protections under the law
Argued African Heritage and culture survived slavery
Which of the following is not true about sociologists E. Franklin Frazier:
15th amendment
black male suffrage
False
According to the chapter, the term black is exclusive specifically referencing African Americans and excluding other groups of African descent
True
Administered by President Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery only in states at war with the union.
True
African American studies must include discourse on Africa
Freedoms Journal
Black newspapers were critical and provided a voice for people of African descent to advocate for themselves and fight racism. Which newspaper was the first to be created by people of African descent in 1827
Descrptive
Black point of view of black lives and experiences
Corrective
Challenge and critique racism in white academic resource
Black Codes
During reconstruction, these were created to reinforce second-class status among African Americans and were reminiscent of slave codes limiting employment, residence to segregated areas, and access to education
Corrective
During the period of slavery and it's aftermath, it was widely believed that slavery had destroyed African heritage and culture among people at African descent. Anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits refuted this idea and argued that African Heritage and culture was not destroyed by slavery in his work, The Myth of the Negro Past. Herskovit's scholarship Best represents which characteristic of the Black intellectual tradition?
NAACP
End segregation and lynching
Nathan hare
Father of black studies
Kerner Commission Report
Find cause of race riots, recommendations ignored, identified discrimination
Sojourner Truth
Former slave who became an advocate for the Underground Railroad and the anti slavery movement. She believed it was her mission to dismantle slavery and famously delivered the speech "and aint i a woman?" At the National woman's suffrage convention in 1852
CORE
Freedom rides
Jimmy Garrett
Having participated in the civil rights Movement, in March 1967, this individual founded the Black Student Union and was central to the formation of the Black Studies Department and the strike at SFSU
True
Humankind originated in Africa and then migrated out of Africa to Europe and Asia
Denmark Vesey
Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, this individual planned one of the most organized slave revolts in the South Carolina, however he was betrayed and he and his conspirators were arrested, tried, and executed before the revolt could come to fruition
West Africa
Most African Americans can trace their ancestral lineage to this geographical region of Africa because this is where most enslaved people were captured and sold
Brown v. Board of Education
No more legal segregation in schools
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
On February 1, 1960, four black students from NC A&T sat down at a segregated lunch-counter in engage in non-violent protests. This sit-in led to the other sit-ins and ultimately the creation of which organization?
Perspective
Propose practical steps for black empowerment
Dred Scott
Saying that Black people could not be us citizen
Black Power
Self-determination and the political and economic independence of the black community
Plessy v. Ferguson
Separate but equal
Fugitive Slave Act
Slave owners could Persue and reclaim alleged in slaves people
False
The Black Student Union at San Francisco State College did not have the support of white students and other students/faculty/staff of color.
True
The Purpose, function, and rationale for African American studies are to expand and impart knowledge through scholarly research, theoretical inquiry, and policy analysis.
False
The institution of slavery that existed before the trans-Atlantic slave trade Was the same as the system of slavery experienced by enslaved Africans in the Americas
True
There is an absence of a single, definitive term to characterize the field resulting in various terms being used interchangeably.
Black Consciousness and Community Orientation
This Paradigm posits that Black Studies must be connected to the black community promoting problem solving and social action in the black community through education and research
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
This organization started freedom rides throughout the south in attempt to desegregate interstate public transportation.
Black Atlantic
This paradigm posits that people of African descent in the United States and the Caribbean represent a hybrid of cultures instead of a single cultural group.
Kawaida Theory
This theory is a combination of Pan Africanist, Black Nationalist, and Socialist thought and practice and posits that the African diaspora has been dissociated with their natural values and so their culture needs to be rebuilt.
Separation
Voluntary practice of races living a part due to economic, social and political freedom
Thirteenth Amendment
Which of the following abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for the punishment of a crime where convicted?
Fugitive Slave Act
Which of the following allowed slave owners to Pursue and capture alleged slaves in few states without due process. The enslaved individual(s) was not allowed to testify and often free individuals were sold into slavery as a result
Her work critiqued racism toward African Americans
Which of the following is NOT true about Zora Neale Hurston:
Their politics remained integrationists as other organizations adopted a Black Nationalist stance
Which of the following is NOT true about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee:
Protests only occurred at predominantly white institutions
Which of the following is NOT true concerning the Student Power Movement of the 1960s
Created the universal Negro Improvement Association in the US
Which of the following is NOT true of Marcus Garvey?
David Walker
______ believed in universal emancipation and wrote an essay which critiqued Christianity as a tool for slavery and urged people of African descent in the United States to rebel against slavery and whites. His essay created fear among whites resulting in more violence and oppression against black people.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
______became a journalist after launching an anti-lynching campaign which brought exposure to the horrors of lynching in the south.