Intro to the Black Experience

In The Mis-education of the Negro, what does Woodson challenge readers to do?

"Do for themselves"

Lineage

"blood lines"

Between 1500 and 1900 how many African captives were transported as part of the slave trade?

10-16 million

From the 15th century to the 18th century, the rate at which Africans were enslaved increased:

15 times

When were Afro-American and Africana Studies programs founded in colleges and universities?

1960s and 1970s

When was USF's Africana Studies founded?

1969

During what decade did administrators generally first become eager to improve the quality of their black studies programs and departments?

1980

By 1700, how many slaves were crossing the Atlantic each year?

25000

For every 100 Africans that made it to the New World, how many died in African or during the Middle Passage?

40

By the 1980s how many colleges had established programs in Black studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, or Africana studies?

600

Prester John

A mythical African king and priest

What is the adoption of brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, following the tradition of closeness among shipmates?

Active kinship

What was the main argument of the Mis-education of the Negro?

African Americans were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools

Which empire conquered Meroe, the Kush capital, 4th century CE and ruled Yemen, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Middle Nile Valley?

Aksum/Axum

After 1600, most enslaved Africans go where?

America

Before 1400, who become the largest group of Eurasian immigrants in Africa?

Arabs

When was biological racism disproven?

At the ned of the 20th century

What was the term for an individual who accumulated land, wealth, family, and recognition during this period in Africa?

Big man

What has become generic name for programs that focus on black history and culture?

Black studies

Who wrote the Mis-education of the Negro?

Carter G Woodson

"Afryqah"

Colony

What two political movements impacted African and African American studies in the 1960s and 1970s?

Decolonization and the Civil Rights Movement

Which trading company helped to create Dutch outposts in Indonesia, Malaya, India, China, and Japan?

East India Company

What caused Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture to side with France in its war against Britain and Spain?

French government abolished slavery

From 1791 to 1804, what was the biggest challenge to the global system of slavery?

Haitian revolution

Which University's Black studies program is known for its "celebrity" public intellectualism?

Harvard University

Which European explorer noted from his travels through the south eastern part of what would become the United States that it was heavily populated in the 1540s?

Hernando De Soto

What improved travel in Northern Africa?

Horses and camels

The first Africans in the "New World"

Iberia

Which "revolution" took place from the late-1700s to the mid-1800s and revolutionized labor and transportation through the mechanization of agriculture and textile manufacturing and the creation of steam ships and railroads?

Industrial revolution

Which statement best characterizes the history of the slave trade in any region?

It's a story of massive business for a few years followed by a span of greatly reduced traffic

Which African kingdom conquered and ruled Egypt from 712-664 BCE?

Kush

What caused high death rates for the first Portuguese to arrive in Africa?

Malaria

Who was the first prominent white intellectual to declare that black culture in America was "not pathological," but rather inherently African, and that it had to be viewed within that context?

Melville Herskovits

Phenotype

Physical characteristics, especially skin color

Which nation's models of warfare, slave trade, plantation colonies, and Atlantic commerce did the Dutch improve upon?

Portugal

Who was an African who traded slaves in Angola and later moved to Brazil?

Rodrigo da Costa Almeida

In 1968, where was the first American Black Studies program established?

San Francisco State University

What Paris-based group supported Haitian blacks?

Society of the Friends of Blacks

What is an example of an African kingdom that began capturing thousands of slaves in the 15th century?

Songhai

Which country was the Netherlands at war with for 80 years in the 16th and 17th centuries?

Spain

Which industry's rapid expansion in the Caribbean led to a dramatic growth in demand for African labor in the 17th century?

Sugar

Which University has a Black studies program that is focused on Africology?

Temple University

In the 1950s, what did white scholars of African American studies often focused on what?

The "Negro Problem"

Where did the Dutch establish a base in 1652?

The Cape of Good Hope

In the many places where "reformed slavery" existed, what did slave owners become concerned with?

The birth and care of young slaves

What does the Haitian flag symbolize?

The black people of Haiti better upheld the ideals of the French Revolution than the white people of France

What's an example of institutional dynamics that supported the rise of diaspora studies?

The emergence of journals, book series, and research funding on the subject

Which best characterizes the trend of free blacks in the Americas in the 19th century?

The number of free blacks increased dramatically throughout the century, from 3 million to 20 million

Which intellectual dynamic supported the rise of diaspora studies?

The rise of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies

What is one shift historians observe in 19th century African slavery?

The rise of slave villages with women AND men producing good to sell overseas

Why did some white college administrators initially criticize black studies programs?

They claimed that programs would lower academic standards

What is the significance of the Dutch for the 17th century slave trade?

They confirmed its profitability

What federal programs caused a rift between African American and African studies programs in the 1970s?

Title VI Programs

Why did USF's program change its name to "Africana Studies" in the 1990s?

To reflect the "Diasporan" effect

During what period did white scholars and institutions discover African Americans and African natives as potentially worthy subjects of scholarship?

WW2

Which Dutch trading company helped establish a colony in the Hudson and Delaware river valleys?

West India Company

Which of the following does NOT explain the growing white population of the Americas in the 19th century?

a spike in the transatlantic slave trade

Which type of racism became the most developed idea of "otherness"?

biological

"African Diaspora"

comes from the Jewish Diaspora

Biological

humans divided into subspecies

Why do some people prefer the term "Africana Studies" ?

it spans both north and south america, the caribbean, and the african continent

European buyers preferred which group of slaves?

males

African Web

network of pathways and waterways that linked African comminities

Culture

religious affiliation and/or dress

What were Portuguese explorers initial goals for their visits to Africa?

to obtain gold and converts

What was the general age of most captives take from Africa?

young adults 12- 30