"quiz" 3

Front 1

Define Community as described by Karenga (250)

Back 1

Community (the Black community) is defined by its sharing of a common space, experiences, view and value systems, social institutions and self consciousness.

Front 2

Whatare the characteristics of a Ghetto as defined by Karenga (252-253)

Back 2

1. Ghetto is territorial, residential, bounded and segregated

2. Ghetto is racial/ethnic. Meaning that it usually black and a product of a racist society. This poses race as a central criteria for determining life chances, opportunities, social status,and human worth.

3.Ghetto is socioeconomic meaning that it is marked by economic and social decay

4. Ghetto is institutional meaning that it has a complex of community institutions, organizations, and enterprises which are positive and negative. (positive because many of the structures are necessary for self determined maintenance and negative because they aren't strong enough)

5. Ghetto is clearly political both an expression and product of Black powerlessness to its establishment and existence.

6. Ghetto is psycho-cultural meaning that it is defined by views, values, and self-consciousness negative to its development and transformation into a free, proud, and productive community.

Hint 2

6

Front 3

How does Karenga describe the relationshipbetween race and class (254)?

Back 3

He believes that race and class interact with each other in social conflict and position. He also brings up the fact that in a racist society race will greatly determine class. Race/Racism is so deeply rooted that racism cannot be reduced to just a function of class or class struggle. He argued that race expresses itself in three ways including conquests and oppression, ideology, and institutional arrangement i.e. systems of political, economic and social structures that insure white power and privilege.

Front 4

What is adaptive vitality school of thought onthe Black Family?

Back 4

the adaption by black people of socioeconomic pressures and limitations should be viewed as a strength not a pathology

Front 5

What are the basic assumptions of the adaptive vitality school of thought?

Back 5

black family cant be fitted into the white formula

not destroyed with enslavement

proved to durable in the face of severe oppression

Hint 5

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Front 6

What are the general themes of African Religious systems as noted by Karenga (also be able to point to examples as explained in class and the text?

Back 6

A belief in one supreme God (ex from reading: Ra from ancient Egypt)

God is both immanent and transcendent, both near and far. Meaning that Africans engage in daily interaction with divinities similar to the role of jesus, angels, and saints. They are assistants to the supreme being.

African religions stress the ancestor veneration to so that there is a source of symbol and lineage, models of a ethical life, service and social achievement

A balance between ones individual identity and ones collective identity and responsibility.

Respect for nature

Conception of death and immortality

Hint 6

6

Front 7

Whatare the basic aspects of the social political philosophies of martin Luther King Jr.

Back 7

Black peoples social suffering had prepped them for liberation and restructuring and spiritualization of society

Blacks have a moral right to disobey unjust laws

It is immoral and cowardly to collaborate in ones own oppression

religion has a social and spiritual function

Hint 7

4

Front 8

Whatare the basic aspects of the social political philosophies of Malcom X

Back 8

Liberating truth and knowledge,

calling for a cultural revolution,

social rootedness and responsibility of religion

respect and equality for women

The oppressor couldnt liberate the people, the people have to be self determined and liberate themselves.

Hint 8

5

Front 9

What does the pathological\pathogenic school ofthought say about the Black family (264-265)?

Back 9

They develop a negative situational adaption to handle the legacy of oppression and exploitation

Front 10

What was Nathan Hare cautionary critique?

Back 10

Criticism of adaptive vitality

Bleives that strength of family orientation prohibits any recognition of pathological consequences of our oppression

fails to incorporate a power conflict model that is appropriate to advocate social change

makes it easier for an oppressive society to ignore heinous conditions it imposes on the black family

Hint 10

4

Front 11

Whatare the five tendencies of the Black Family articulated by social scientistRobert Hill?

Back 11

strong kinship/bonds that are stronger than white. These relationships express it through family relationships

strong work orientation

adaptability of family roles (ie male female switch parental roles

high achievement orientation

religious orientation

Front 12

Whatfour ways are politics and economics linked according to Karenga

Back 12

Wealth and power are mutually engendering and supportive

those with power and wealth try to monopolize both

those with power and wealth tend to shape society in their own image and interests at the expense of those without it (blacks/poc whoes relative possession of wealth and power are a lower levels than whites).

the struggle for distributive justice is both a political and economic struggle.

Front 13

Whatare the areas of political power that Karenga defines

Back 13

Key positions in government- national/state positions held

voting strength- electing peers/ people that relate

community control-authority over economic political and cultural institutions in the community

economic capacity- political power through financial campaigns

community organization- highly mobilized/organized political force

possession of critical knowledge- social tendency toward specialized knowledge

coalition and alliance- create and argument power

coercive capacity- impose one interest and physically factor out opposition

Hint 13

8

Front 14

Whatis political power?

Back 14

the social capacity of a group to realize its will in spire of opposition from others

Front 15

Whois Ptah Hotep?

Back 15

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Front 16

Whatare the six major problems with Black owned businesses?

Back 16

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Front 17

What are the resource structure karenga mentions that are necessary in the black community

Back 17

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Front 18

OVERLAPPING political strands in black politics

Back 18

Assimilation- individuals are absorbed into dominant culture

Separatism- advocation for the political, cultural, and economic, separation from a group or nation

Black nationalism- social though and practice centered around the concept/ ideas that black people are unique and their needs should be addressed with uniqueness

Pan africanism- looks at ppl of african decent as a collective about uniting black people internationally

Hint 18

4 ism

Front 19

what are the seven principles of kwaanza

Back 19

Umoja means unity.

Kujichagulia means self-determination.

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Ujima means working together

Ujamaa means supporting each other.

Nia means purpose.

Kuumba means creativity.

Imani means faith, especially faith in ourselves.