Study Guide

What are the 6 conceptual categories?

Social Structure

Governance

Ways of Knowing

Science and Technology

Movement and Memory

Cultural Meaning Making

Framing question 1

How do we undertake the study of the African experience?

Framing question 2

How did Africans preserve and affirm they're way of life and use their identity as a means to resist enslavement?

Framing question 3

What are some of the similarities and differences in the practices of self determination of Africans in the U.S and their counterparts throughout the hemisphere?

Framing question 4

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

Framing question 5

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

Framing question 6

What organizations, ideologies and leaders did Africans create and engage in in the 20th century to promote and advance liberation?

Mbongi

A house with no rooms

Lusanga

Mix

Kioto

Inhale

Boko

Broken

What are the 3 ground rules of intellectual work?

Be Present

Read and write

Listen to Mekhet

What is the Black radical tradition?

Africana studies

What is the purpose of linking the series of migrations, adaptations and improvisations that form narratives of African human existence?

To assist the studies that try to theorize on the basis of long view genealogies of African intellectual work.

Using the 24 hour clock formula for charting modern history, when is the period of "modern world history?"

1500-present (11-12pm)

What is the case of "Fischer v. Texas" and what major contemporary legal issue does it involve?

A case within Texas where a white woman believes she was not accepted to the University of Texas based on affirmative action mandates in place.

What are the levels of human social organization?

Parental/Family

-Local or Subsistence Groupes, Villages

-Reproductive Groups/Clusters of...