Sustaining Black Studies

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Which discipline was profoundly affected by the Black Studies revolution of the late 20th century?

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What term grew out of the political and academic climate of the 1960s?

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According to the text, Afrocentric metatheory is primarily concerned with

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According to Ama Mazama's study, what is the language of the Africans of Guadeloupe?

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What are the two measures that Ama Mazama is concerned with in her study?

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Which university founded the first department of Black Studies in 1969?

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What term gained recognition as a name and objective of the intellectual pursuit of Black Studies?

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What was the immediate academic aim of the Black Studies movement?

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What did the students in the Black Studies movement want to avoid taking into their psychological systems?

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Which group of people were often arrested during the early days of the struggle for equal education in African American Studies?

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What was a critical issue faced by the incipient movement of African American Studies?

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Why did some African American students face a deadend when it came to hiring Black professors?

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What was one challenge faced by continental African professors hired to teach African American Studies?

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According to the text, what was the aim of changing the name of departments to Africana Studies?

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According to the text, what did the term Africana intend to embrace?

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According to the text, what was the Africological movement?

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According to the text, what did Africology signal?

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Which term was used to describe the movement for academic enrichment within the general revolution initiated by the Black Studies revolution?

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What was the defining moment in the Black Studies movement?

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Which institutions were raided by major universities to gain African American professors?

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What was the political objective of each movement within the general revolution initiated by the Black Studies revolution?

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According to the text, who was the first African to articulate the necessity for linking Ancient Egypt to the rest of Africa?

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What is the main challenge for Africologists in the postmodern era, according to the text?

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What does the text suggest about the study of African phenomena in relation to social sciences and humanities?

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What does the text say about the connection between Africans on both sides of the Atlantic?

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