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Wiley was somewhat well known, but who became his most famous painting? What is his other most famous painting?
Barack Obama (2018), Napoleon
Wiley remixes the _______ paintings.
Old Master
What’s the process known as where Wiley introduces himself to strangers and invites them to serve as models for his painting?
Street Casting
Early in her career, Amy Sherald made the decision to only paint _______.
Black People
During her studies of art, Sherald noticed an absence of ________ in art history.
Black People
__________ is the signature feature of Sherald’s paintings.
Gray Scale
Who are the only two paintings that Sherald has been commissioned to produced?
Michelle Obama and Breona Taylor
By the time you graduate, how many more words might you know?
10,000 more words
At what age does most early vocabulary growth occur?
Age 5
What are college years described as in terms of word growth?
Vocabulary Surge
What kind of listening helps build vocabulary in class?
Close listening
What kind of vocabulary appears across all disciplines?
Academic Vocal
What are words like justice, identity, and bias example?
Abstract and the original term
What typeof terms are specific to a field or profession?
Disciplinary Terminology
What word is used across English, Biology, and sociology classes?
Analysis
What economic system does Baraka repeatedly criticize in “Dope”?
Capitalism
What political figure and jazz musician deeply influenced Amiri Baraka?
Malcolm X and John Coltrone
What does Baraka suggest is a form of “dope” in his poem? Whose persona does he adopt to make this point?
Religion, Black Preacher
What television miniseries does Baraka sartizie for its portal of slavery?
Roots, 1977
What unusual vocal technique does Baraka use throughout “Dope”?
Wordless Pharases
Who is the author or “The Electric Joy of Service”?
Rion Amilear Scott
What two-word phrases does Coates usr to criticize celebrating America’s achievements while ignoring its historical injustices?
Tier-Wheather Patriot
According to Coates, the central dilemma of reparations is a dilemma of what?
A dilemma of inheritance
In 1836, approximately what proportion of Americans economic activity was connected directly or indirectly to enslaved labor through cotton production?
Slavery
What discriminatory housing and lending practice does Coates identify as one of the ways Black Americans were economically exploited after slavery?
Redlining
Coates compares emancipation to closing a door against bandits. What system does he describe as opening the windows to continued exploitation?
Jim Crow Laws
According to Coats,reparations are not simply about financial compensation or making amends; they are also a question of what?
Citizenship
What literary technique is demonstrated by Jay-Z especially complex layer of meanings in his word play?
Triple entedrue
What literary technique involves creativity manipulating words, sounds, and meanings to produce clever or unexpected effects?
Word play
What image does HOV use when discussing his internal growth and personal elevation?
Planes
What beauty brand does Jay-Z mention “pushing” as legitimate business?
Fenty
When Jay-Z says, “I think y’all should keep quiet”, whom is he echoing?
Louis Frankhan
This book is not for everyone. I have a specific audience in mind: people who cared deeply about racial justice
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha Nebraska, one night.
The autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
At a time in American history when black women in every area of the country might have joined together to demand social equality for women and a recognition of impact of sexism on our social status, we were buy and large silent. Out silence was not merely a reaction against white women liberationists or a gesture of solidarity with black male patriarchs. IT was the silence of the oppressed- that profound silence engendered by resignation and acceptance of one’s lot.
Ain’t I a Woman: black women and feminism by Bell Hooks
124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
You better not never tell nobody but God, It’s kill your mammy
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Dear God
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
I am fourteen years old. I am I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Living here with my dear old grandmother and grandfather, it was a long time before I knew myself to be a slave. I knew many other things before I knew that.
My Bandage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
It is a secular sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the yes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall 1941. We though, at the time, that it was because Pecola was having her father’s baby that the marigolds did not grow.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison