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.