Answer all the following short answer questions. Please keep your responses to 2-4 sentences.
1. Reviewing the assigned article, “Afro Native Realities,” briefly explain what they mean by the intersecting histories of African enslavement and indigenous dispossession.
2. Why is it significant to understand the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the study of world history and culture?
3. Describe 3 significant impacts of the Haitian Revolution.
4. Explain the Cherokee “civilization policy” and the impact it had on the Cherokee (This is from the second episode of the documentary, “Race, The Power of an Illusion: The Story We Tell”).
5. Describe what does that mean by the “Counter-Revolution of 1776,” and how it is different from the established history on the founding of the U.S. in 1776.
6. The film, “Look for Me in the Whirlwind” describes part of the life of Marcus Garvey, who led – to date – one of the largest international mass movements in the early 1900s. Describe two key aspects of the Garvey movement that made it significant for Black communities then and now.
7. Describe three of the stereotypical images of African Americans explore in the film, “Ethnic Notions, and briefly explain how they were used to justify racism against that community.
8. Describe the relationship between capitalism and slavery.
Part II. SHORT ESSAYS Please note that each response should be at least two full paragraphs (*but no more than 3 paragraphs per essay). Do not list your responses. Make sure your points are clear and that your essay makes sense Include EVIDENCE cited or quoted from the readings to support your statements and arguments in each answer. Please include a Works Cited page (even if you are citing lecture notes) – in whatever format (MLA, APA, or Chicago).
1. Using specific examples from Kindred and “The Last Supper,” please compose a short essay that examines the nature of resistance among enslaved populations in the Americas. Your essay should clearly discuss the culture of domination during slavery and enslaved African response. How did the enslaved resist? Did they always resist? What forms of resistance did they use?
2. Describe the key themes of the film “Slavery By Another Name” that focuses on the series of legislation that brought the end of Reconstruction. Name and describe at least four of these laws and how they worked to: 1) criminalize Black life in the South and; 2) help in the rise of the convict leasing system. Then, describe the specific ways that the essay by T. LeFlouria. “The Hands that Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood: Exploring Black Women’s Lives and Labor in Georgia’s Convict Camps,” supplements the points made in “Slavery By Another Name.” Your response should include specific examples from both, of these resources.
3. The African American community suffered greatly during the post emancipation era, and yet found many ways to maintain its sense of self, even managing, in some cases, to gradually improve its social welfare. The strategies of the Black community were diverse ranging from protest to community building. Discuss the social and political context of the post-emancipation period and some of the African American intellectual and political responses to the repression of the time.