AP African American Studies Exam Review

Vocabulary flashcards for the AP African American Studies exam based on a review session transcript.

Interdisciplinary

Involves multiple academic disciplines; African American studies is not just history, but also includes art, culture, and literature.

Black Power Movement

A movement that emerged in the 1960s on college campuses, advocating for African American studies departments.

Bantu Migration

Refers to the migration of Bantu people throughout Africa, influencing the continent's ethnolinguistic characteristics.

Ladinos

Africans who were conquistadors and involved in the Spanish conquests

Commodification

Treating something that doesn't actually have monetary value as an object that has monetary value, like enslaved people.

Partis Secutor Ventrum

Policy establishing that a child's status (free or enslaved) was derived from their mother.

Hypodescent

The concept or the one drop rule that if you are part Black, then you are Black.

Fugitive Slave Act

Law requiring the return of escaped enslaved people to their enslavers; the 1850 version was stricter.

Black Codes

Laws restricting the movement, communication, literacy, and other basic rights of enslaved people.

Jim Crow Laws

State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States; segregation by law.

Great Migration

Voluntary migration of African Americans out of the South to the North, Midwest, and Western United States.

Harlem Renaissance

Growth of artistic and intellectual expression

Anticolonial Movements

Movements that sought to fight back colonolial powers using expressive culture.

Negritude

Movement in French Caribbean countries embracing black culture.

Black Power

Movement advocating for self-determination, cultural pride, and self-defense.

Afrofuturism

A cultural aesthetic and political movement that blends black experiences from the past with an Afro centric vision of a technologically advanced future

Diasporic Solidarity

Unity and connection between people throughout the African diaspora.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Landmark legislation outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Legislation prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.

Fair Housing Act of 1968

Legislation prohibiting discrimination in housing.