Introduction to Black Studies

Intellectual values distinct from detractors' ideological usage.

To place African ideas at the center of any analysis involving African culture and behavior.

It is critical to understanding society and the human condition.

<p>Rooting black studies in African culture and perspectives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Afrocentric Manifesto</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It maintains the dominant worldview.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It emphasizes mutual respect for each culture's unique contributions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Focus on African Civilizations, especially Egypt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Cheikh Anta Diop.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The African focus on Egypt as a classical African civilization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reports of Greek and Latin witnesses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Melanin dosage test</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Critical and systematic study of the thought and practice of African people in their current and past history</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>History, Religion, Social Organization, Politics, Economics, Creative Production, Psychology</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Everything African people have done and experienced</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Biology and race; political, economic, and class; society and nationality; ideology and consciousness</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indispensable view of Black Studies project and start a wide range of discourse for both academic and social links and consequences</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thought and practice organized around respect for human diversity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Critical study of the African dispersion from the continent of Africa around the world</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tension between Black and white feminists; role in civil rights and Black power movement; intellectual and practical struggle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physical anthropology; self-definition; eyewitness; cultural similarity; artistic evidence; geography</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nile Valley - Nubia, Kerma, Napata; Western Sudanic Civilization - Ghana, Mali, Songhai</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vastness of subject; mostly only oral history; European conquest of Africa</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Has cultural identity but not born a slave</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Segregation political policy in South Africa that separate people's living and gave privilege to Europeans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Should not replace African Studies, should be a study of its own.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Belief in a supreme creator or God; belief that God is both near and far; importance of ancestors; idea of collective identity and responsibility; respect for nature; concept of death and immortality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bible used to make slaves more submissive; Christian God seen as more powerful than African gods; helped to cope with social and psychological effects of enslavement; helped establish sense of community; became a heritage and socially accepted; used to create social distinctions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Political - provide leadership; Education - establish schools for Black people; Economic - establish businesses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>400 years of conquest and European colonization; Africa had no capital or central government; capitalism; mass production of weapons</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Born into slavery (1856-1915); advocate for vocational education; spoke in favor of social separation from white majority and economic integration; founded Tuskegee Institute.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freedom, justice, equality, respectability</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Born free (1868-1963); first to receive PhD from Harvard; advocated for Black higher education and Pan-Africanism; co-founder of NAACP.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Civil Rights, African Independence, Black Power</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Claiming Columbus came to America from Africa; studying stone heads in Mexico.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Born out of resistance and struggle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The civil rights movement; the free speech movement; the anti-Vietnam war movement; the Black Power movement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Break down barriers of legal segregation in public accommodations; achieve equality and justice for Black Americans; organize Black Americans into a self-conscious force capable of defining, defending, and advancing their interests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A white student-led protest against the rigid, arbitrary, restrictive, and unresponsive character of the university.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The general student protest against the Vietnam War.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ushered in a new dialog about power in society and the university; stressed the importance of self-determination in culture, politics, and economics; emphasized the need for power in achieving and maintaining it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An education that was meaningful to the students, useful to the community, and reflective of the realities of society and the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ushered in the resurgence of nationalist activism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formally the Negro Student Association formed in 1966 at San Francisco State College; argued for the first department of Black Studies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Year of dissent where the BSU protested against the schools and state until the formation of the Black Studies department.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allowed Black students to attend school with white children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allowed for Black students to learn about themselves and their heritage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Disappointment with civil rights and an unwillingness to wait for outside assistance; the rise of groups such as the Black Panthers; the creation of foot soldiers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The newly admitted Black students, who were willing to be active protagonists on college campuses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The critical and persistent truth and meaning in human history and social reality from an African vantage point; an appreciation of the African initiative and experience in the world; a rigorous intellectual challenge to established ways of viewing social and human reality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A specific branch of knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unit of knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Model of an idea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of inter-related suppositions that seek to explain a phenomenon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>System of methods and principles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The combining of two or more academic fields for synthesis of information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Existential, Ontological, Axiological, Hermeneutical</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Questioning their existence; meaning of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Questioning their nature of being - where do we fit in?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Questioning the ethics and values of American society - why is this happening?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trying to interpret and explain the crisis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The dispersion or scattering of people with a common origin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formation period, oppression period, recovery, transformation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Up until the 1500s until the arrival of colonial interest where traditions and values were still intact and undisturbed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Epocs of oppression resulting from Colonialism, Enslavement, Jim Crow, DeFacto segregation, DeJure segregation, Apartheid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Segregation and discrimination by society and customs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Oppression sanctioned by the law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>21st century where agency occurred.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The capacity to act, make history, create culture and address critical human concerns in a meaningful and successful manner.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of Africa or all Africans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thinkers who understood themselves in both moral and social terms and constantly expressed a commitment to using their knowledge and skills in the service of the people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Truth, justice, and rightness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Knowledge not just for knowledge's sake but for human's sake.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The need to solve the pressing problems of the Black community, society, and the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Privileging European people and culture at the expense of the culture and lives of people of color.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To teach the Black Experience in its historical and current unfolding; to assemble a body of knowledge contributive to intellectual and political emancipation; to create intellectuals dedicated to community service and development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Service projects which are engaged in social responsibility that pursue a just society and the expanded possibilities of an equitable world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A definitive contribution to humanity's understanding itself; contributions to U.S. society's understanding of itself through the contributions of Black Americans; helping shape the university's mission to teach the whole truth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'He who does not know does not do.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interdisciplinary and becomes a paradigm for the multidisciplinary approach to social and historical reality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural Grounding, Academic Excellence, Social Responsibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The foundation and framework for Black Studies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Not only the amassing of data but the development of an interpretive capacity to understand and translate the African initiative and experience in the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using knowledge to improve the human condition and enhance the human prospect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Professional organizations, the Afrocentric initiatives, Black women's studies, multicultural studies, classical African studies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emerged from discussions within the Black Caucus of the African Studies Association; aimed to correct Eurocentric biases in teaching about Africa.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The African Studies Association, addressing the needs of Black scholars.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>First president of AHSA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ground and context for scholarly encounter and exchange; advocate for Black interest in education and larger social issues.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To examine all aspects of African history and culture; to protect influence in organizations relating to African peoples; to challenge who claims authority on African life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To promote and strengthen academic and community programs in the area of Black studies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Founded in 1976 with Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddy as the first chairperson.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To continue to produce discipline literature; expand grant and research proposals; increase context for discourse and exchange.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wrote 'Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change' in 1980; developer of the first PhD program in African American studies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Location and centeredness, African agency and African frame of reference in research methodology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An ideology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of beliefs, values, and assumptions held on faith alone, generally unrelated to empirical facts.</p> Signup and view all the answers