Intro to the Black Experience
In The Mis-education of the Negro, what does Woodson challenge readers to do?
"Do for themselves"
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 was The Mis-education of the Negro published?
1933
When were Afro-American and Africana Studies programs founded in colleges and universities?
1960s and 1970s
When was USF's Africana Studies program founded?
1969
During what decade did administrators generally first become eager to improve the quality of their black studies programs and departments?
1980's
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
Who was Prester John?
A mythical African king and priest
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
What is the adoption of brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, following the tradition of closeness among shipmates?
Active Kinship
Who founded African studies and African American studies before the two fields became their own units from the 1950s to the 1990s?
African American scholar-activists in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities
What is the main argument of The Mis-education of the Negro?
African Americans were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools.
During the 1950s, in African studies there was a shift from studying African civilization to what?
African modernization as Africa turned into a "development problem."
Which empire conquered Meroe, the Kush capital, 4th century CE and ruled Yemen, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Middle Nile Valley?
Aksum/ Axum
Before 1400, who become the largest group of Eurasian immigrants in Africa?
Arabs
The separation between African American studies and African studies was reinforced by what?
Area studies
What was the term for an individual who accumulated land, wealth, family, and recognition during this period in Africa?
Big Man
What has become the generic name for programs that focus on black history and culture?
Black Studies
Who wrote The Mis-education of the Negro?
Carter G. Woodson
What did the Phoenician term "Afryqah," mean?
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
Which of the following was NOT a demand black student groups and their supporters made as Black Studies programs were established?
Fire all white administrators
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" came from where?
Iberia
What is one way W.E.B. Du Bois's work demonstrates intersections of African and African American Studies?
It critiques racism in the United States and colonialism in Africa.
Why do some people prefer the term "Africana Studies"?
It spans both North and South America, the Caribbean, and the African continent.
What is a criticism of the term "Black Studies"?
It suggests that only black students and faculty should be interested.
What caused high death rates for the first Portuguese to arrive in Africa?
Malaria
European buyers preferred which group of slaves?
Males
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
What was the general age of most captives take from Africa?
Mostly young adults, ages 12-30
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, white scholars of African American studies often focused on what?
The "Negro problem"
After 1600, most enslaved Africans go where?
The Americas
Where did the Dutch establish a base in 1652?
The Cape of Good Hope
What caused Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture to side with France in its war against Britain and Spain?
The French government abolished slavery.
From 1791 to 1804, what was the biggest challenge to the global system of slavery?
The Haitian Revolution
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?
The Industrial Revolution
In the many places where "reformed slavery" existed, what did slave owners become concerned with?
The births 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 intellectual dynamics 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.
What is one reason for administrators' shift their approach to black studies programs?
There was a larger pool of productive, well-trained scholars newly available.
What is the significance of the Dutch for the 17th century slave trade?
They Confirmed its profitability
Why did some white college administrators initially criticize black studies programs?
They claimed that programs would lower academic standards.
What federal program caused a rift between African American and African studies programs in the 1970s?
Title VI Program
What were Portuguese explorers initial goals for their visits to Africa?
To obtain gold and converts.
Why did USF's program change its name to "Africana Studies" in the 1990s?
To reflect its "Diasporan" focus
Which Florida University granted the first B.A. in African American Studies?
USF
Which Dutch trading company helped establish a colony in the Hudson and Delaware river valleys?
West India Company
During what period did white scholars and institutions discover African Americans and African natives as potentially worthy subjects of scholarship?
World War II
Which best characterizes the trend of free blacks in the Americas in the 19th century?
increased dramatically from 3 million to 20 million
Which statement best characterizes the history of the slave trade in any region?
massive business for a few years followed by a span of greatly reduced traffic.
What is the African Web?
network of pathways and waterways that linked African communities.
