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This organization has assisted the Pan African movement in conflict management in addition to economic development, and the struggle against colonial and settler colonial rule. |
Organization of African Unity (OAU) |
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This organization, founded in Durban, South Africa, to respond to the challenges brought about by globalization and to enhance the pace of African development was seen as a successor to the OAU. |
The African Union (AU) |
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Even when African countries became politically independent, they maintained a structure with the developed world that was similar to the colonial era prompting the term _______________________. |
neo-colonialism |
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_________________was known as ________________. |
Chinua Achebe/The father of African literature |
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Post-Civil War laws designed to restrict freed blacks were: |
Black Codes |
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The Portuguese and French employed a system of rule wherein Africans were required to learn their language, education and living patterns. This type of rule was called:
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Direct rule |
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Myths about Africa were/are perpetuated by: |
All the above: media, biased historians, and books |
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This person was known as the "Father of Black History": |
Carter G. Woodson |
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The "two-ness" that people of African descent describe as two souls, two thoughts and two warring ideals is: |
Double-consciousness |
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According to the British poet Rudyard Kipling, the white man's burden was: |
Taming, civilizing, and refining Africans |
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According to "Wonders of the African World," what were the Portuguese looking for when they first traveled to Africa? |
Gold |
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According to "Wonders of the African World," The last slave ship left from this port in Africa: |
Ouidah |
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This individual founded the Univeral Negro Improvement Association |
Marcus Garvey |
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When men in a patrilineal society become wealthy and begin to support dependents and heirs they consequently_________. |
Become powerful and prestigious |
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This conference held in 1884-1885 and often called the "scramble for Africa" divided Africa up into colonies held by Europeans |
The Berlin Conference |
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According to the video "Economics of the African-American Family," in Wilson's study of three predominantly Black neighborhoods, in 1990 what percentage of Black males held a job in these neighborhoods? |
37% |
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Malcolm Little and Malcolm X are not one in the same |
False |
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At the end of the Civil War, African-Americans were poor, illiterate, and owned no land. Forty Acres and a Mule was designed to bring land and economic reform to black farmers |
True |
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Africa is the 2nd largest continent with over 1000 languages spoken from the Afro-Asiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan language families. |
True |
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According to "Wonders of the African World, " the last slave ship left from Ouidah in West Africa just over 100 years ago. |
True |
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A Eurocentric framework is perfect to study Africa because European researchers' theories and applications are universal. |
False |
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According to "Wonders of the African World," the first European slave trading post in all of Sub-Saharan Africa was located in Ghana. |
True |
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“Garveyism” is so named due to Marcus Garvey’s influence on African descendants in every corner of the world to liberate and reconstruct Africa to be powerful. |
True |
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Marriage occurs in almost every single African society. There are very few older single people. |
True |
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The function of bridewealth is purely an economic one. |
False |
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African slavery was more like ____ than European slavery. |
serfdom |
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The practice of men having more than one wife is _____ |
polygyny |
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Slaves held secret church services away from the visibility of their masters. This was called: |
Invisible church |
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A “simple business” in Africa is another name for |
Family |
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Witchcraft and sorcery may be components of: |
Traditionalism |
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In the Herskovits/Frazier debate, this individual believes that the African-American family is sick and broken and needs to be repaired: |
E. Franklin Frazier |
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Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan views of the black family were more closely related to those of: |
E. Franklin Frazier |
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According to the video "Reflections of the Black Church," E. Franklin Frazier believed that the most significant cultural institution created by blacks was: |
the black church |
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In the video "Reflections on African-American Religion," according to Barack Obama in “The Audacity of Hope,” the black church is one of: |
collectivism |
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In "Reflections of the Black Church," Barbara Savage says “African American religion can be described as: |
all answers are correct |
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Amusement, relaxation, instruction and religion were the roles for the black church according to whom? |
W.E.B. DuBois |
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This system of colonial policy allowed British officials to act as "advisors" to African authority figures: |
Indirect rule |
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_____, first enacted in Ohio, restricted the rights and movements of blacks. |
black codes/laws |
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The three-part voyage of ships taking part in slave trade included the ___, the most gruesome portion of the trip wherein slaves were held in inhumane conditions and often died before reaching America. |
middle passage |
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Believing that one's own culture and ethnicity are superior to any other is called: |
ethnocentrism |
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Belief in one God is called____________ |
monotheism |
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This family type traces their lineage through the mother. |
matrilineage |
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This type of family traces its lineage through the father. |
patrilineage |
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African studies is mono-disciplinary. |
false |
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There are no religious books or official structural places of worship in Traditionalist religious practice in Africa |
True |
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The holy book of Christians in The Bible. |
true |
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The "queen" of the social sciences which has been more responsible for restoring the African past moreso than any other discipline is: |
history |
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The Decade of African Traditional Medicine was: |
2001-2010 |
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Chattel slavery is the ownership of human beings as property |
true |
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This organization, founded in 1942 in Chicago, relied on its relationship with progressive white people in order to integrate Chicaco restaurants. |
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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This organization was founded in 1942 by a group of students in Chicago with the goal of using non-violent tactics to obtain Civil Rights in America. |
CORE |
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This organization was founded on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1960 and played a major role in Civil Rights initiatives: |
SNCC |
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This explanatory construct about Africa and Africans, attempts to validate the stereotype of African/Africans as having tribal impulses. |
tribalism |
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This group encourages the blending of African-based ideas into a school's curriculum. |
Afrocentric infusionists |
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The concept of debt bondage is to be tied to an owner and working until you get tired and then leaving without paying off the debt. |
False |
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Africa officially became independent from European rule with the decolonization of this country in March of 1990: |
Nambia |
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___________delivered the “I have a dream” speech of unity in Washington DC in August 1963. |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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This type of family consists of the parents and children without any other family members like aunts or uncles living in the household. |
Nuclear |
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In this type of family, grandparents, parents, and children may all live under the same roof. |
Extended |
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The ___________ theory views the African-American family as sick and as a result fractures the black community. |
pathological |
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What is national integration? |
describes the unity or oneness felt by citizens of a country with regard to citizenship |
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What are mini nations? |
Groups of people with a common culture, language, and shared historical experience, usually living in a specific geographic area |
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Define irredentism |
One ethnic group split by colonial boundaries resulting in two or three countries charing parts of that group |
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Define secession |
Ethnic group attempting to form own government and become independent |
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Define apartheid |
A system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced by NP |
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What are the four areas that were targeted for "separate development" in South Africa? |
legal classification of the population according to race, designation of specific areas for race, interdiction on interracial marriage, and prohibition of sex relations between white and other races |
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Who was the first African American to be elected as governor of Virginia and first African-American governor of any state since Reconstruction? |
Douglas Wilder |
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What are the two "African-Americans" that are emerging according to this chapter? |
Prosperous middle-class and the poor, unskilled, uneducated, and alienated |
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What did the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education mandate? |
Outlawing segregation and "separate but equal" provision in education |
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What does this chapter cite as the "country's most serious social problem"? |
Racism |
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What is the estimated population of the African Diaspora in the US? |
30 million |
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What is the name of the population that traces its ancestry to Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the West Indies? |
Afro-Caribbean |
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Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture? |
Overthrew French colonial rule in Haiti in 1804 |
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Where is the largest concentration of blacks outside of Africa? |
Cuba |
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What is the difference between personal, group, and listener music? |
-personal: personal enjoyment -group: performed by group for that group -listener: done by professionals |
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What is call and response? |
soloist sings a line and it is responded by a chorus |
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Singing in African is robust and extroverted |
True |
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What does creolization in Caribbean music mean? |
Brought a variety of European and African musical traditions |
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Who were the Black Carib? Describe their music |
Descended from African slaves; blend of African and Amerindian |
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Reggae is the dominant style of music in Jamaica |
True |
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Love songs/ballads are not common in the Caribbean |
True |
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Epic narratives and praise songs are common in the Caribbean |
True |
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What is an ethnomusicologist? |
Approach music as a social process |
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Define Jazz |
Incorporates improvisation, swing, phrasing, and articulation |
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What US city is the "mecca" of jazz? |
New Orleans |
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Define Blues music in general |
Defined by harmonic structure |
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Define Spirituals |
Any antebellum African American religious composition |
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Define Gospel |
"church songs" |
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Definition of literature |
Takes note of place and people with their "aesthetic modes" and "cultural and social structures" |
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Physical environment and place are strong factors in Afro-Caribbean literatureT |
True |
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Cultural heterogeneity |
Presence of multiple different cultures in a given population |
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Song Tradition |
Portrayed a people of the lower end of social stratum who hoped for resolution of their plight in the afterlife |
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Slave narratives |
Document his/her movement from slavery to freedom and from North to South |
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Who is Frances Harper? Claude McKay? |
Frances Harper is popular abolitionist lecturer and poet. Claude McKay is a militant voice of the era |
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New Black Aesthetic |
1960s poetic revolution |
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Relevance of "A Raisin in the Sun" |
Accurate reflection of blacks; Play by Lorraine Hansberry debuted in 1959 |
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Who is Chinua Achebe? |
Author of Things Fall Apart; Nigerian author |
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Who are the primary Characters in Things Fall Apart? |
Okonkwo, Ikemefuna, Nwoye, Chielo, Ezinma, Ekwefi |
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What is a Chi? |
Individuals personal God |
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Okonkwo |
Son of Unoka; tragic hero who hangs himself at the end of the book. He is resistant to the idea of missionaries |
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Ikemefuna |
Boy given to Okonkwo by neighboring village; Becomes close to the family |
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Nwoye |
Okonkwo's older son; Finds peace in missionaries |
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Chielo |
Dedicated to the oracle of the Goddess Agbala |
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Ezinma |
Okonkwo's favorite daughter; Strategy ahead of emotion |
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Ekwefi |
Okonkwo's second wife and mother of Ezinma |
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Mr. Smith |
Strict replacement of Brown; stereotypical white colonist |
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Mr. Brown |
First white missionary; appeals respectfully to tribes value system |
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Unoka |
Okonkwo's father |
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Things Fall Apart is set in what time period? |
1890s |
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Which area of Africa is hardest hit by HIV/AIDS? |
Sub Saharan Africa |
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What are the three health issues/illnesses/issues from the "triple threat" to African health? |
HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis |
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Biomedical is to Western medicine as traditional is to African medicine. |
True |
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In Africa, cell phones are being used foreverything from health to agriculture to education. |
True |
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This disease in Africa kills one child every 30 seconds. |
malaria |
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Ointments made from coconut oil and leaves, and lotion made of wine with a "vinegar" texture and fragrance are examples of: |
African traditional medicine and healing |
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________ represents the percentage of the world's maternal and child deaths that can be attributed to Africa. |
50+ |
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Sleeping sickness is often found in Africa as well as some portions of South America. |
False |
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______________African areas have better healthcare services than ____________areas of Africa. |
Urban/Rural |
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African countries agreed to allocate 15% of their budgets to healthcare in 2001 which has been met with overwhelming positive compliance. |
False |