IDs

Question 1

Kim Butler’s five dimensions of diasporic research

Answer 1

1. actual reason for moving (ex. emigrate, forced exile)
2. relationship with homeland, can be real or imagined
3. relationship with hostland (place you’re going to)
4. interrelationships with communities (identifying is a vial component) : close with similar people and identify with them
5. comparative studies of different diaspora: in order to study diaspora, need to be able to compare them with other diasporas. ex. African and Jewish

Question 2

Faye Harrison’s “structural violence” and “global apartheid”

Answer 2

Blacks were property legally and asserts that systematically was a violation of our human rights because we are nothing more than making money. Dehumanize black.

Structural violence: mentally and physically damaging their mind, body, and social status (people of color), symbolic, we need to build up and stand against racism, xenophobia (harmful treating of immigrants)

Global apartheid: worldwide control of governmental resources, and economies, causes economic inequality, undemocratic and systematic, usually targeted by minorities, ex. Mexico “war on drugs”

Question 3

Sarah (Sartje) Baartman

Answer 3

Where: she from S.A., indentured servent
When : 1810
Sig: dehumanize and objectified based off of sexual features that were non-European, made into a freak show, genetalia was compared those of female apes

Question 4

The Nation of Islam

Answer 4

When? 1930
Who? led by Wallace D. Fard Muhammed, disappeared in 1934, then it was led by Elijah Muhammed
Sig? improve social, spiritual, mental, and economic conditions of African Americans in the U.S. and all of humanity
Where? Detroit, Michigan

E.M. established Temples and universities, farms, businesses

Malcolm X was a part of the Nation of Islam, left, joined Sunni-Muslim

Question 5

Marcus Garvey

Answer 5

Who? Pan-Africanist
When? Born August 18, 1887 in Jamaica
-Father was a descendent of Maroons
Where: Jamaica, moved to Kingston years later
Sig; Dubois and Garvey had same childhood experience, could not play with his childhood friends because he was Black, master printer, lABOR UNION and was black-listed, sees a commonality of people of color and working conditions, fascination for Booker T. Washington (impressed of washington claiming his race and intellectualtiy in his books), formed U.N.I.A. and Back to Africa campaign
-1916: soap box preacher, talked about problems in the community such as non-lynching campaigns, need to teach blackness, in Harlem: UNIA (1917)

Negro World-UNIA newspaper

1919: Black Star Line
1922: stops black star line
convicted of mail fraud by the Hoover campaign
DEPORTED TO AFRICA
NEVER STEPPED FOOT TO AFRICA

Question 6

DuBois and Liberia

Answer 6

wanted to start up the Black Star Line, Africans enslaving other Africans for the good of trading, Dubois did not seem himself as like them because of his Western education,

• Black Intelligensia wanted to take control, more like colonize Liberia.
• Firestone company was the imperial power to go to Liberia, Dubois was in contact with them
• Ran by classism
• 1920s

Question 7

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 7

When: Dec. 1 1955.-20 1956
What? Rosa Parks did not want to get up out of her seat and black people followed her and lower and middle class blacks suffered, higher class had cars
Why?
Sig: said to have started Civil Rights Movement, THE LIES

Question 8

The Zong

Answer 8

When: 29 November 1781
Who? ship owned by a slave trading in Liverpool, participated in Trans-Atlantic Slave trade,
Sig: slaves were perceived as property so much that when the whites lost them, the whites would be reimbursed, like an insurance policy, also threw people overboaard so the remainder could survive, took out insurance on the lives of the slaves as cargo
Where? heading to Black River, Jamaica

Question 9

Negritude

Answer 9

Concep’‘t of embracing black identity and culture
formed/ by Leopold Sedar Senghor
When?

Question 10

Alain Locke

Answer 10

Born in Philly (September 12, 1885)
Graduated from Harvard
First Black Rhodes Scholar
Promoted concept of New Negro (Black Intellectuals)
English professor of Howard University

Question 11

The “Hamitic curse”

Answer 11

biblical prophecy used to justify the ill-treatment. Seen as a bad race.

Ham was transformed to a darkness because of the sins of his father, Noah.

Question 12

Nancy Prince

Answer 12

Who: autobiographer, activist for the rights of the people, especially in Jamaica,
When: 1799; unknown death date
Where: Massachusetts
Sig: race in Russia not that severe like the U.S.; Key West: if they got off the boat, they would be enslaved; got involved with the Anti-Slavery Society (abolitionist)

Question 13

W. E. B. DuBois and his “colorline” theory

Answer 13

Dubois: pan-africanist
Double-consciousness: blacks are fighting whites, but also want to be a part of society
When: 20th century
Where:
Sig: not sig. to U.S., but sig. to African, Japan, Berlin
separation of color line goes beyond racism, depends on what country you go through. Ex. Haiti, depends on how dark you were or class determined how you were treated. Papa Doc and Baby Doc were dark, but treated better because they are part of the elite. If not, nowhere near being in power.