Part One Identifications - 10 Points Each, 200 Total

Part One Identifications 10 Points Each 200 Points Tota

Part One Identifications 10 Points Each 200 Points Tota

Instructions Part One: Identifications (10 points each; 200 points total) This section requires you to write short answers to each identification question. There are 20 identification questions worth 10 points each for 200 points total. Each answer must address who, what, when, where, and why in the identification. Each answer should be no more than one paragraph in length (4-5 sentences or words), double-spaced with 1-inch margins using 12 point Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font. You are not required to include citations.

Each answer must: Identify the individual named, author, event, and other key individuals and groups (2 points); Discuss what the identification term or name is about (2 points); Describe when it occurred (2 points); Describe where it occurred (2 points); Explain why the individual, group, or event is significant for understanding African American Studies (2 points). Listed below are twenty identification terms you will need to answer in Part One of the exam. You must answer all twenty terms to receive full credit. DO NOT copy and paste language from classroom resources or any other source. This is an act of plagiarism and is a violation of the academic integrity pledge you signed in Week 1. The twenty identification terms are drawn from Weeks 1-4 of the AASP 201 classroom resources.

Please use your class readings first to answer the terms before resorting to outside sources. The twenty identification terms are:

  • Jim Crow
  • Segregation
  • Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
  • Frederick Douglass
  • William Green
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Tuskegee University
  • Black Studies
  • 40 Acres and a Mule
  • KKK
  • Lynching
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Life of a Slave Girl
  • Civil War
  • Reconstruction
  • White Supremacists
  • NAACP
  • Niagara Movement
  • Harlem Renaissance

Part Two: Essay (100 points)

You are required to answer one of three essay questions described below. The essay portion must be 4-5 pages in length, double-spaced, numbered, include 1-inch margins, use 12 point Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font. Your essay must include a Works Cited page.

The citation style of the Works Cited page may be either Chicago, APA, or MLA. The selected citations must be appropriate to the exam topic and the citations must support the assertions made in the exam. Your essay will include three main parts—the Thesis/Introduction, Argument, and Conclusion. The Introduction should clearly state the thesis within the first 1-2 paragraphs, making the topic and position clear. The Argument (3-4 pages) should incorporate pertinent details from the assigned readings, supported by outside sources if desired, providing relevant historical evidence to support the thesis. It should be organized, focused, and free of grammatical errors. The Conclusion should briefly restate the thesis, summarize key points, demonstrate insight, and be free of errors.

Please answer one of the following questions:

  1. Examine the impact that slavery had on the lives of enslaved women in America.
  2. Interrogate the role of the Harlem Renaissance on the freedom struggles in America and around the world.
  3. Booker T. Washington believed that practical education was the route to freedom for Black/African people in America. Do you agree or disagree with this assertion?

References

  • Baker, Houston A. Jr. (2017). "The Harlem Renaissance Revisited." Oxford University Press.
  • Dubois, W.E.B. (1903). "The Souls of Black Folk." A.C. McClurg & Co.
  • Fredrickson, George M. (2003). "Jeremy D. Foster, The Black Image in the White Mind." HarperCollins.
  • Gates Jr., Henry Louis. (2011). "The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song." Penguin Press.
  • Levine, Lawrence W. (1993). "Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom." Oxford University Press.
  • McPherson, James M. (1988). "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era." Oxford University Press.
  • Omi, Michael & Winant, Howard. (1994). "Racial Formation in the United States." Routledge.
  • Roediger, David R. (1991). "The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class." Verso.
  • Woodson, Carter G. (1933). "The Mis-Education of the Negro." The Associated Publishers.
  • Wilkins, David G. (2014). "The Washington Consensus and the Future of African American Education." Journal of African American Studies.

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