AFAM - Study Guide #

San Francisco State Student Strike (When, Where, Who, What, Significance)

When: 1968-1969 and it lasted around 5 months

Where: San Francisco State College

Who: Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front

What: They wanted more inclusion for the curriculum, accessibility, representation, and free speech

Significance: The creation of the first ethnic studies department

Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon (When, Where, Who, What, Significance)

Who: Anasazi

Where: Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico

When: 900-13th century

What: The Anasazi built several major cities and the largest was Chaco Canyon

Significance: Chaco canyon became a metropolitan and was home to thousands.

Occupation of Alcatraz (When, Where, Who, What, Significance)

Time: Nov. 1689 - June 11, 1971

Who: organized by Indians of all tribes 1968

Where: Alcatraz Isalnd, San Francisco Bay

What: Peaceful protest in which the Indians wanted the return of the island to Native People

Significance: Brought attention to conditions of Native Americans. greater control by Native communities over education and economic development of reservations

Bacon’s Rebellion (When, Where, Who, What, Significance)

Who: Nathaniel Bacon (leader of rebellion)

When: 1675

Where: Jamestown, Virginia

What: Bacon raised a bi-racial militia that attacked the surrounding native groups and burned/attacked Jamestown

Significance: Bought fears of inter-racial rebellions, Virginia created new laws to make slavery permanent, slaves were prohibited weapons, unable to leave their owners land, and can not strike a white person at all

Racial Formation

process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed

Mom and child, How were ideas about race constructed on to African Americans?

Mom enslaved = child enslaved (1662, Virginia)

Black Codes, How were ideas about race constructed on to African Americans?

Harsh laws from the south to regulate lives of the formerly enslaved (passed in sourthern states)

Deprived of Education,  How were ideas about race constructed on to African Americans?

If they were educated they might rebel

Chattel Slavery,  How were ideas about race constructed on to African Americans?

System that treat individuals as property that can be bought and sold

New Laws (Virginia), How were ideas about race constructed on to African Americans?

Make slavery a permanent institution

1682 in reaction to bacons rebellion

slaves were prohibited from owning weapons, leaving their owners plantations, and unable to hit a white person even if it was for self defense

ban on marriages

1691 - between black men and white women