1. Introduction to Afro American Studies I 2. Mid Term Examination Review Sheet

1. Introduction to Afro American Studies I

2. Mid Term Examination Review Sheet

3. Spring 2013 Semester

4. Note: As you have been aware since our first day of class, you will need all four assigned course books in order to prepare for this examination (Ngugi, Armah, Robinson and Smallwood) and for the remainder of the class. If you have not yet done so, it is not too late to purchase these texts, either at the Howard University Bookstore or at Children of the Sun bookstore (for Armah and Ngugi) 2810 Georgia Avenue, NW, across the street from Burr Gymnasium. The mid-term examination will be administered on Tuesday, March 5. The format will include objective, true/false, short answer, fill in the blank and matching questions.

5. From Syllabus (and Notes)

6. What are the six Conceptual Categories? A system for studying African people, places and culture.

i) Social structure: What social structure do people being discussed lived under at the time we are studying.

ii) Governance: How did Africans being studied organized themselves into self-determing relationships during this period?

iii) Ways of knowing

iv) Science and technology

v) Movement and memory

vi) Cultural meaning-making

7. What are the six Framing Questions?

i) How do we undertake the study of the African experience?

ii) How did Africans preserve and affirm their way of life and use their identities as a means to resist enslavement?

iii) What are some of the similarities and differences in practices of sel-determination of Africans in the U.S. and their couonterparts throught the hemisphere?

iv) How did Africans begin to conceptualize unity in thought and action beyond national boundaries in the face of European and American imperialism?

v) How did Africans make sense of and participate in international developments?

vi) What organizations, ideologies and leaders did Africans create and engage in the 20th century to...