Black Lit Exam #2 Questions & Answers

What cultural product was released in 2018 that amplified interest in comic books by African American creators?

Black Panther

What is the name of the kind of reading that involves an array of processes, including inferential and deductive reasoning analogically skills, crtictial analysis, reflection, and insight?

Deep Reading

What kind of culture has made it increasingly challenging for many people to develop adequate reading skills?

Digital Culture

What two things does it take to become an expert reader?

Time & Experience

Online activity or digital culture assets us in multitasking processing massive information, shifting between interactive modes of communication, and more. But what important intellectual activity does online activity discourage?

Contemplation & Reflection

What three important reasons for reading creative literature?

Build cognitive ability, Imagination, Expand perspective taking

At most basic level, what are the neurons in your brain almost always (and they do even more when you engage in serious or deep reading)?

Making Connection

Where, or more specifically, who does this economic concept known as “exchange value” come from?

Karl Max

Who’ the narrator of the story?

Cooter

What are the two main characters in the woman’s apartment in the first place?

Stealing

One of the bothers insists that they not touch anything until he first does what?

Take inventory

How did Miss Bailey acquire her wealth in the first place?

Inherited

Based on one of the characters in “Exchange Value,” when you buy something, what do you lose?

The power to buy something

What did Loftis find and wrap in a newspaper while walking down Devon Avenue?

A Penny

The presence of so many jokes and so much fun in the freestyle seem to confirm the idea that _________ can facilitate high creativity

Humor

What kind of musicianship does freestyling in rap resemble?

Jazz Solos

What does his ability to rhyme for so long demonstrate about his abilities?

Unbelievable vocal endurance

What poet, who we’ll cover, has a style that somewhat corresponds to Black Though’s delivery approach

Amiri

Which Toni Morrison novel is widely viewed as her masterpiece? What genre is her masterpiece?

Beloved, Neo-slave narratives

Which Toni Morrison course at SIUE was a first in two ways?

Black woman Author, She was still alive

Morrison’s novel, the one that is the favorite of many AALS faculty, shows a rich engagement with what?

Black folklore

Who wrote the most widely shared tribute to Morrisons?

Barack Obama

What was Aaron McGruder’s major in undergrad?

African American Studies

When it first appeared, why did the comic strip make some people upset? Why did some people really like it?

It deal with race and racism

What’s notable about the full name of the main character?

Hubey as hey freeman - Freeman deal with racism

What’s one facial expression that Huey Freeman never makes?

Smile

What black art form did McGruder most frequently critique? What black company did he most frequently critique/

Rap Music & Bet

How was McGruder’s most important means of critiquing the negative effects of hip hop on black youth?

Riley Freeman

What did McGruder says gave him a new sense of purpose after becoming nearly burnt out on the comic strip?

The government handling of 9/11

In the opening of Black Panther #1 (2018), the following statement is made: “A hero who was reduced to a slave, a save who advanced into a legend.” Who and what are being invoked?

Frederick Douglass, The narrative of Frederick Douglass

Where, in general, do the events of Black Panther #1 take place.

Deep Space

What does the unnamed protagonist have vauge memories of in his dreams?

Storm

In this universe, there’s mention at one point of Emperor N’Jadaka. What is the name of that person in the regular Wakanda setting?

Kill Monger

A fellow prisoner tells the protagonist that many things have been stolen. What does that fellow prisoner advise not to be stolen?

Your Mind

What are people fighting against the empire known as? What does that term link to?

Marrons, Enslaved people who escaped

What name is the nameless protagonist given?

T’ challie

What three questions did Professor Redmond pose that ultimately led him to produce a remarkable history of Black poetry?

What is a black poem, poetry, and what’s black about it.

What developing cultural enterprise motivated Redmond to seek out the meaning of Black poetry?

Black arts movement

Who, in part, influenced Redmond’s decision to link the history of drums and music to the history of Black poetry?

Katherine Dunham

Redmond had access ton cultural components of Black artistic and cultural components of Black artistic and cultural expression, but what did he gain access to in 1969 when he went to work as wrtier-in-residence at Oberlin College that allowed him to study the formal histories of Black poetry?

College Library

Remond’s first extended writing on the history of Black poetry was rejected but what did the editor who rejected his work compliment?

Remond’s bibliography

About how long did it take Redmond to write his story on poetry?

10 years

What’s the full title of Redmond’s nook on Black poetry? What year was it published?

Drumvoices: The missions of Afro-American Poetry A Critical History (1976)

Which chapter of Redmond’s book gained view as particularly remarkable about Remond’s book as a single_authory study of Black poets and poetry?

The range

What did scholars in the field of African American literary studies being to increasingly do as the field progressed that made it less likely for them to produce expansive study like Redmond’s?

Distinct Areas of specialization

We die soon.

Gwendolyn Brooks, We real cool

I bathed In the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep

Langston Hughes, The negro speaks of rivers

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back !

Claude McKay, If we must die

But all the time / I’se been a-climbin’ on, / And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’s corners, / And sometimes goin’ / in the dark.

Langston Hughes, Mother to son

47th street in Chicago and Lenon Avenue in New York and Rampart Street in New / Orleans…”

Margaret Walker, For my people

We/Lurk late. We /Strike straight.

Gwendolyn Brooks, We real cool

Let a /bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth.

Margaret Walker, For my people

We / Lurk late. We /Strike straight

Gwendolyn Brooks, We real cool

Let a /bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth

Margaret Walker, For my people

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair

Langston Hughes, Mother to son

Posting time /being, speeling when hungry, shouting when burdened, drinking when hopeless, tied,

Margaret Walker, For my people

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to the New Orleans…

Langston Hughes, The negro speaks of river