Afro American

Introduction

 to

 African

 American

 Studies

  Spring

 2012

 Mid

 Term

 Review

 Sheet

Note:

  These

  questions

  and

  concepts,

  anchored

  in

  the

  classroom

  lecture-­‐discussions

  we

  have

  mounted

  over

  the

  last

  seven

  weeks,

  are

  highlighted

  in

  each

  of

  the

  following

  categories

  and

  covered

  to

  some

  degree

  in

  the

  map

  book.

  Some

  of

  it

  is

  mentioned

  in

  Cedric

  Robinson’s

  Black

  Movements

  in

  America

  and

  Ayi

  Kwei

  Armah’s

  The

  Eloquence

  of

  the

  Scribes.

  A

  small

  percentage

 comes

 from

 class

 lecture.

 Many

 of

 these

 items

 are

 captured

 in

 the

 Power

 Point

  panels

  available

  on

  Blackboard.

  We

  will

  review

  this

  sheet

  on

  Tuesday,

  February

  28

  in

  preparation

 for

 the

 midterm

 examination

 on

 Thursday,

 March

 1.

Key

 Questions:

  1. Know

 and

 be

 able

 to

 name

 the

 three

 “ground

 rules

 of

 intelletual

 work”

  2. Know

 and

 be

 able

 to

 name

 the

 four

 elements

 of

 the

 bi-­‐weekly

 essay

  3. Know

 and

 be

 able

 to

 explain

 the

 six

 framing

 questions

  4. Know

 and

 be

 able

 to

 identify

 the

 six

 conceptual

 categories

  5. Be

 able

 to

 explain

 and

 apply

 the

 “24

 hour

 clock”

 analogy

 and

 framework

  6. Be

 able

 to

 explain

 the

 cosmograph

 concept

 as

 it

 relates

 to

 the

 study

 of

 Africana

  a. Also

 be

 able...