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the color purple context Flashcards

1
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when and where did slavery originate?

A

1400s
settlers from Portugal came to Africa

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how did slaves make owners extremely wealthy?

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hard labour and reproduction

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3
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how many millions of Africans were forcibly carried to the Americas?

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11-12 million`

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4
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where did slaves originally work?

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plantations

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5
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what happened in 1730s Chesapeake?

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natural increase of the black population meant the majority of residents had never seen Africa

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6
Q

“negroes from __ to __ suite this ________ best” ~ Charleston Slave Trader

A

15 to 25
market

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what threat did pre 1860s Georgia think slaves posed?

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danger to every white person in Georgia

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8
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when was the Slave Code Act?

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1755`

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9
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in Georgia pre 1860s there was a long, deadly ______ to the _______ which would take ________ resulting in __% of slaves dying before the end of the journey

A

march
coast
months
40

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10
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did Georgia become an extension of Europe or Africa?

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Africa

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11
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which state had the largest number of plantations in the south?

A

Georgia

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12
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white Georgians viewed slavery as ______________ indispensable

A

economically

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13
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when was the Emancipation Proclamation?

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1863

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“all persons held as ________ are, and henceforward shall be _____” ~ The Emancipation Proclamation

A

slaves
free

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15
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what was the issue with the Emancipation Proclamation?

A

Only states seceded US states applied

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16
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[Critical Comment] Lovalerie King ~ “Walker achieves a previously unrealised depiction of the __________ approach to life in the character of ____ _____ (who) Chooses an alternative to __________ and embraces a ____,____,_____ sexuality”

A

womanist
Shug Avery
mothering
free, open, fluid

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17
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What are the three types of woman Walker uses?

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Suspended
Assimilated
Emergent

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18
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[Critical Comment] Ralph D Story ~ “no other black woman writer has sought or gained so much _______________ ___________ from black males”

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retrospective retribution

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19
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[Critical Comment] Pauline Kael ~ “________ female _____________”

A

rampant
chauvinism

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20
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[Critical Comment] Ishmael Reed ~ “in league with white feminists who have systematically conspired to _________ ______ ___”

A

denigrate
black men

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21
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[Critical Comment] Ishmael Reed ~ “Walker’s representation of ____ is so marvelously crafted - so _______ - that the _____ _____ characters become ____ and increasingly ______________

A

Shug
whole
black male
flat
insignificant

22
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[Critical Comment] George Stade ~ “___________ in the novel is _______,irreducible, the __________ _____ of all that’s wrong in the world”

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masculinity
radical
causeless cause

23
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[Critical Comment] George Stade ~ “the only way that the male characters can be _____ is by giving them the _________ to be _____ by realising the ______ already in them”

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saved
courage
women
woman

24
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[Critical Comment] Trudier Harris ~ “anyone can ___ her, or say anything to her, or commit _________ against her, and she will __________ say something to the effect that she is ______ ____

A

use
violence
placidly
still here

25
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[Critical Comment] Maroula Joannou ~ “to criticise [Celie] for ____________ is to do so in ____________ of the fear which male __________ produces in women”

A

passivity
ignorance
violence

26
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[Critical Comment] Maroula Joannou ~ “what is surprising is not that the ___________ of victims of __________ violence like Celie is _____ to develop but that it ____ ____________ at all

A

resistance
domestic
slow
ever develops

27
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[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ “read Walker’s novel as a _____-_______ revision of a ___________”

A

post-modern
fairytale

28
Q

[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ “the novel engages two delightful aspects of fairytales: ___________ ___________ and ___________ _______

A

fantastic happenings
improbable endings

29
Q

[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ “____ transforms and can make all things ___ and __________”

A

love
new
beautiful

30
Q

[Critical Comment] Thomas F Marvin ~ “readings of the novel as __________ more convincing than those that try to force the novel into a ___________ ____

A

fairytale
realistic mode

31
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[Critical Comment] Steven Weisenbrger ~ “Walker’s ________ errand had taken __________ over the elements of ___________ art”

A

womanist
priority
narrative

32
Q

[Critical Comment] Steven Weisenbrger ~ “sacrifices mimetic _________ … ________ goals”

A

fidelity
didactic

33
Q

[Critical Comment] bell hooks ~ “mere ____________ treatise on ______ life or a radical ___________ text”

A

sociological
black
feminist

34
Q

[Critical Comment] Kaufmann ~ “in keeping with its ________________ _________”

A

womanist
agenda

35
Q

What does Walker say about Womanism?

A

Womanism is to feminism as purple is to lavender

36
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Who does womanism focus on?

A

Black experiences of men and women

37
Q

Who was Walker’s literary inspiration?

A

Zora Neale Hurston

38
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What did Zora Neale Hurston study?

A

Religions of African diaspora
Black folklore

39
Q

What role of slaves is significant to Celie?

A

Cotton pickers

40
Q

What percentage of black farmers were sharecroppers in the 1900s?

A

50%

41
Q

What industry did the Republican’s promote when they came to power in 1868 Georgia?

A

Textiles

42
Q

What is intersectionality?

A

All oppression is linked

43
Q

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

A

Revival of African-American arts and culture

44
Q

Why were police so brutal to black people?

A

Protection of whiteness

45
Q

What did police refer to black women as?

A

Colored Amazons

46
Q

What happened to black female inmates?

A

Food and sleep deprived

47
Q

What does Alice Walker think of God?

A

All present and All magical

48
Q

What is Walker’s belief?

A

Pantheism

49
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What were Walker’s parents?

A

Sharecroppers

50
Q

What is Walker’s sexuality?

A

Bisexual

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