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Midterm Flashcards

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Frederick Douglass character traits

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  • Believed slave system hurts whites as well as blacks

- Opposed back-to Africa movements

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booker t Washington character traits

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  • Praised by whites as a prudent leader
  • said black ppl should be submissive and patient while white ppl learn to accept them into society(continue to treat them like shit)
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WEB DuBois

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  • Intellectual who grad./Harvard & authored numerous books/studies on integration
  • Found. NAACP; thought blacks should operate separate instate. in black community
  • Urged/proposed plan for Black-oriented curricula at predominantly black colleges
  • Philosophy was opposite to that of Booker T. Washington
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Carter G Woodson

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  • -Father of Black history
  • Founded assoc. & journal dedicated to study of Negro life & history
  • One of first to proclaim American education system had failed AA youth
  • Wrote Mis-Education of the Negro
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Marcus Garvey

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  • Born in Jamaica in poor conditions working & poverty
  • Founded Jamaica Improvement Association…led to Universal Negro Improvement Association
  • “Greatest booster of AA spirit & self-pride”
  • Garveyism came to be during Harlem Renaissance
  • Focused on econ. uplift of Blacks
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myth vs reality of Africa

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Myth - Africans had no history of civilizations…made it justification for slavery on moral/religious grounds

Reality - Among 1st builders of Great cities, Great city-states, Kingdoms, Empires….Early fabricators of wood/stone, cultivation of soil

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what is black studies

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critical and systematic study of the thought and practice of African people in their current and historical unfolding
-contributes to expanded sense of human possibility not just black possibility

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what is the African diaspora

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movement of African people all over the world

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what is agency

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capacity or will to act on your own behalf

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who created negro history week(which became black history month)

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Carter g Woodson

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race causal explanation

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if a white man shoots and kills ppl its one individual who committed a crime

if a black man shoots and kills its oh black people are always shooting

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traducer

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one who speaks maliciously and falsely (slander)

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Miseducation of the Negro summary

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Study of the Negro (Woodson) summary

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  • black ppl interested in history of there races and millions are spent to promote such knowledge
  • oppressor teaches black people they have no past worth learning about
  • “determine what he thinks and need not worry what he’ll do”
  • study of black people keep alive questions that are to be forgotten(ex slavery)
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Learning to Read and Growing in Knowledge (Douglass) summary

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  • Mrs Sophia at first was kind and very religious and treated Douglass as a child. taught him to read.
  • Mr. Hugh learned what his wife did and was pissed. made her stop.
  • “nature made us friends. slavery made us enemies”
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stamp summary

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  • slavery and tyranny go hand in hand
  • power of master must be absolute
  • wise masters knew black ppl weren’t natural born slaves and had to be broken into bondage
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Angela Davis Summary

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  • Cliche of black women (aggressive, matriarchal, emasculating)
  • slavery didn’t create matriarchal families bc families were forcibly separated
  • in slavery men and women were equal - deformed equality- (did same labor and had same extreme punishments. and women still did all domestic work in their shacks)
  • black women participated and led a lot of rebellions (even small ones like poisoning food)
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drapetomania

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disease that induces n euro to run away from service and is a disease of the mind

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Moynihan report

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white guy Moynihan writes about racial inequality specifically black poverty and talks about how the black familial structure is a case for national action

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atlanta exposition (Washington) summary

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  • addressing white men in power in the south
  • need friendship between whites and blacks(white ppl help black ppl because they showed their loyalty in slavery)
  • duty of the negro = deport himself modestly in regard to political claims
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21
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cast your bucket down (white audience)

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you know us, we took care of your babies. if you work with us, we will be faithful, law abiding and most unresentful people the world has ever seen

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cast your bucket down (black audience)

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start where you are (agriculture, factories etc)

build your strengths in what you know (labor)

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Our Spiritual Strivings (DuBois) summary

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  • how does it feel to be a problem?
  • when white classmate wouldn’t trade cards with him, he realized that he was different
  • didnt want white ppl getting all of the opportunities
  • negro is like the 7th son
  • history of negro is history of his strife
  • veil/color line
  • double consciousness (trying to black and American. how you see yourself vs how others see you. )
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Marcus Garvey summary

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-wanted to create new world of black man- unify black ppl all over world
-Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
-inspired by Booker T Washington
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Booker T Washingotn’s program

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industrial education
conciliation of south
submission and silence

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attitude of imprisoned groups take 3 forms

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  1. revolt and revenge
  2. adjustment to the will of the “greater group”
  3. self realization and self determination
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revolution of 1876

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  • aka Hayden-TIll compromise
  • The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
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DuBois says Washington gives up 3 things

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  1. political power
  2. insistence on civil rights
  3. education
29
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impressions left by BTW

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  • south is justified in their treatment of the negro
  • prime cause of negro’s failures is his wrong education in the past
  • future rise depends on his own efforts
30
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3 supplementary truths

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j

31
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Of Booker T Washington and Others

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  • BTW accepts inferiority of negroes
  • triple paradox=
    - wants negroes to be businessmen and own property without right to vote
    - insists self respect but submits to civic inferiority
    - industrial training but need teachers
32
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Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?

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  • 4 million negro school age kids but only 2 million in school
  • separate schools are needed for the proper education of the negro because in integrated schools they are crucified and not given recognition
33
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The first Black Studies program was founded at what institution?(Karenga)

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San Francisco state college

34
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Karenga asserts that Black Studies does not want to develop which of the following?

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vulgar careerists

35
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According to Karenga, which of the following is NOT identified as one of the basic objectives of Black Studies?

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build a black economic base

36
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According to Karenga what are the basic objectives of black studies?(4)

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1) teach black experience in its historical and currently
2) create a body of knowledge
3) Creating Intellectuals
4) Campus-Community Connections

37
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Who is credited with originating the concept of Afrocentricity?(Karenga)

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Molefi Asante

38
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Karenga identifies which of the following as a “coercive” institution?

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the university

39
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what are the four thrusts of the student movement? (Karenga)

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1st civil right movement
2nd- free speech movement
3rd- anti war
4th- black power movement

40
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how is black studies a critical study(Karenga)

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careful analysis and considered judgement

41
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3 things civil rights movement sought to due(Karenga)

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1) break down barrier of legal segregation in public accommodations
2) achieve equality and justice for blacks
3) organize blacks into a self conscious social force,capable of defining, defending and advancing their interest

42
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When Woodson asserts that “The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with this interpretation of the crimes of the strong,” to which world leader does he make reference?

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Mussolini

43
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Woodson asserts that “If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much
good as any other race he will…

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aspire to have equality and justice

44
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The only special brand for the solution of the race problem is …(woodson)

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to learn to think

45
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The miseducated Negro seeks to forget(3)(woodson)

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1) that he was once a slave
2) that he has been oppressed
3) that he is a negro

46
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Mr. Auld told his wife that if Douglass learned to read the Bible, he would become

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disconsolate and unhappy

47
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Who does Douglass describe as the “meanest and most wicked?”

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slaveholders

48
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According to Douglass, Mrs. Auld had to “justify herself to…”

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herself

49
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Douglas white playmates were in support of Douglas counties enslavement

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false

50
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According to Davis, what labor was the only labor that slave could claim as their own?

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domestic

51
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For the enslaved, domestic life represented a “”

Davis

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modicum of freedom

52
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Who was performing “the only labor of the slave community that could not be directly and immediately claimed by the oppressor.”
(Davis)

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black enslaved women

53
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Rape is described by Davis as an act of “counterinsurgency” that targeted

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the entire slave community

54
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Davis describes the “female castrator” cliché as

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a weapon of ideological warfare

55
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Why was there “confusion and doubt in the soul of the black artist?” (Of Our Spiritual Strivings)

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Because larger audiences could not appreciate the beauty of his race

56
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What event made DuBois first recognize that he was different?(Of Our Spiritual Strivings)

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his white female classmate wouldn’t take his trading card

57
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What is the “two-ness” discussed by DuBois?(Of Our Spiritual Strivings)

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American and negro

58
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To what question does DuBois “answer seldom a word?”

Of Our Spiritual Strivings

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how does it feel to be a problem?

59
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DuBois suggests that the American “Negro” longs to do what? (Of Our Spiritual Strivings)(3)

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1) attain self-conscious manhood
2) merge his double self into a better and truer self
3) make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American,

60
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Dubois states the negro began to have the dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world he must be..(Of Our Spiritual Strivings)

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of himself and not another

61
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Garvey was not called a Negro as a young child.

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true

62
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Garvey was impressed with the programs of Black political leaders in the United States.

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false

63
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The goal of The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities (Imperial) League was

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“uniting all the negro peoples of the world into one great body to establish a shared country and Government ABSOLUTELY THEIR OWN

64
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Garvey supported racial purity

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true. he also supported separatism

65
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Booker T Washington agreed to speak w. Garvey in the South and other states to help his work

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true but booker t Washington died first

66
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DuBois says that “it is utterly impossiblefor workingmen and property-owners to defend their rights and exist without”

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the right of suffrage

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