Lecture 1

Question 1

The creation of Black Americans evolved around 2 themes

Answer 1

1. material conditions: Politics, Demographics, Economics
2. Meaning: changing of history, decolonization

Question 2

Black Americans:

Answer 2

A numerous, diverse, and creative people with varied rich history

Question 3

Ethiopianism:

Answer 3

Ancient Egypt + Cush + Ethiopia = the new race

~ East Coast colonization of ancient Egypt

Question 4

Ethiopia defeated its colonizers…

Answer 4

Italy

Question 5

Creolized

Answer 5

Mixture of languages

Question 6

Diaspora

Answer 6

The dispersion of any people from their original homeland, a scattered population whose origin lies in a seperate geographic locale

Question 7

Black scholars in an African diasporic framework

Answer 7

George Washington Williams (1849-1882)
Arthur Alfonso schomburg (1874-1938)
W.e.b du bois (1868-1963)
Alain Locke (1885-1954)
William Leo Hansberry (1894-1965)

Question 8

Two key movements in this transformation of African Americans to Africa

Answer 8

1. Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro improvement Association (unia)
2. The New Negro Movement (Harlem Renaissance)

Question 9

European conquest of Africa at the end of the 19th century

Answer 9

Colonialism

Question 10

Origins of African American culture

Answer 10

About 10-12 million Africans were forced out of their homes
NO EXACT NUMBER
Brazil and the Caribbean sugar plantations were the largest recipentsto receive imported enslaved Africans

Question 11

The middle passage

Answer 11

People from diff.or varied geographical locations were purposely mixed up to ensure these ppl don’t communicate, understand themselves, revolt or uprise.

Were from different socio-cultural backgrounds but shared the same or common experience with slavery.

Common Traumatic experience led them to find ways to survive, communicate and work together

Question 12

The middle passage can be defined as

Answer 12

The triangular slave trade trip of kidnapped (or enslaved) Africans, packed together on or below decks without space to situp or move around in massive purpose-built “slave ships from the west African coasts across the Atlantic Ocean to North America”

Question 13

Ghana empire (7th-13th century) Capital

Answer 13

Kumbai Saleh - important trading center in the 11th century

Ghana is located in the modern region of the state of Mali in the headlands of the Senegal and Niger rivers. Origin began about 2000 years ago , Around Jesus

Question 14

Mali empire (c.1235-1670) capital

Answer 14

Niani

Mali arose around 1235 to the South and West of the declining Ghana Empire

Better in the mid-13th century under Sundiata Keita, he destroyed Kumbai Saleh paving the way for the ruler of the Mali Empire 1312-1337, Mansa Musa

Question 15

Songhai Empire (c.1460 - 1591) Capital

Answer 15

Gao

Centered on the Niger River

King Sonni Ali (1464-1492)

Question 16

Harlan Renaissance produced:

Answer 16

A vague and idealized version artworks ancestral art

Question 17

What motivated African Americans to travel to Africa

Answer 17

Independent of African Nations, the American Civil Rights, and Black Power Movements in the 1960s