SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS AND PROMPTS:

Describe at least three elements of the “politics of respectably” emphasized in the early 1900s?

According to Patricia Hill Collins, how do prevailing standards of beauty affect African American women’s treatment from black and white people?

How did the cosmetic industry use the “Black is Beautiful Movement” to market to black women?

Describe the restrictions placed on welfare recipients. What were the punishments for violating those restrictions?

Describe the wide-ranging consequences of the sexual abuse of African women during the Middle Passage.

2 part

1. Why is it important to root African American history in West and Central Africa rather than in Colonial
America?

2. What do the experiences of Anthony and Mary Johnson tell us about race relations before 1700?

3. What factors contributed to the shift from indentured servitude and other forms of labor to racial
slavery?

4. Describe the social construction of race in Colonial America?

5. Name three specific reasons that slave states made marriages between enslaved people illegal.

6. Describe specific methods enslaved mothers used to resist the system of slavery.

7. What is the åcond Middle PassageàWhat led to this phenomenon?

8. Describe, in detail, Nat Turneràrevolt in 1831 based on the readings, not the film.

9. Why didn’t the social status of black people change beyond the end of slavery in the United States?

10. Describe specific consequences of white resistance to Reconstruction?

11. Describe the Africanization of European Christianity.

12. What was the intent of antiliteracy laws?

13. Name three specific ways the federal government addressed racial violence during Reconstruction.

14. What role did the Supreme Court play in dismantling civil rights gains made during Reconstruction?
Name and explain specific cases.

15. What educational strategies did W. E. B. Du Bois suggest for combatting white supremacy