Assignment instructions HIS325r:
Discussion:
Examine the effect of economic crises in the 1970s and 1980s on African American society and race relations in the United States.
Based on the discussion provide a response to the following question.
How did the economic crises after 1970 impact the gains made in the 1960s by most black Americans?
Think about your own national, ethnic, or racial heritage. What extent does it shape your personal identity? Are Africana women ‘s personal identities shaped by national, ethnic, or racial heritage more than others in America? If so, why? If not, why?
Assignment instructions HIS325c:
Source of Reading: Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis’s To Make the World Anew: A History of African Americans and any additional readings related to the discussions and questions below.
Discussion:
Examine the development of a unique African American culture under slavery and its effects on American culture today.
Your readings have probably opened your eyes to the rich and unique cultures that Africans developed, even while they were in slavery in North America.
Keeping that in mind, respond to the following:
What do folk culture, literature, and spirituals suggest to us about African American culture under slavery? Explain your answer.
Do you see any reflections of these in the American culture and society of today? Give examples to support your answer.
Assignment instructions HIS325a:
Source of Reading: Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis’s To Make the World Anew: A History of African Americans and any additional readings related to the discussions and questions below.
The nature and makeup of West African societies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries prior to and during the Atlantic slave trade.
Based on your readings on West African society, respond to the following:
What is most striking or surprising about these accounts? Explain your answer.
Source of Reading: Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis’s To Make the World Anew: A History of African Americans and any additional readings related to the discussions and questions below.
Explain the reasons for and historical ramifications of the Atlantic slave trade.
Based on your readings respond to the following:
Given the enormity and longevity of the Atlantic slave trade, how important was it to modern history?
Why do you think it happened?
W20th century Africa legacy:hat is the legacy of 20th century Africa?
1. Using at least FIVE of the sources (2 primary and 3 secondary) you have encountered after the midterm explain what is the legacy of 20th Century Africa?
2. Using at least FIVE of the sources (2 primary and 3 secondary) you have encountered after the midterm, explain what are the defining attributes of Modern Africa 1800 to the present?
Explain how some gender, sexual and family dynamics in African societies are unique and how some are similar to other societies. include in your discussion a reference to precolonial Yoruba gender norms and ideas around sexuality as alluded to in film “Rafiki”.
Readings/Film as mentioned above that you can choose to reference:
1) How is Africa represented within the book? What images, ideas, beliefs, and attitudes
about African society are expressed?
2) How are gender relations described in the book? What do you perceive of women’s and
men’s roles and/ or status?
3) How is the impact of colonialism or post colonialism on African society described within
the story?
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
publisher, year published and page the citation is from).
In, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Mr. Douglass’ tells of his journey, from an enslaved man to a free man, in three story arcs: Hugh Auld’s reaction to his wife’s (Sophia) kind treatment of and teaching Mr. Douglass to read; the year Mr. Douglass spent with Edward Covey (a sadistic slave breaker); and Mr. Douglass’ righteous indignation and fury that Hugh Auld felt entitled to take every cent Mr. Douglass earned as a skilled private contractor, by the sweat of his brow.
Define, discuss and critique each of the three story arcs (beginning, middle and end); how each one led to the next; how they overlapped and intersected.
