8/18 orgins and foundations flash cards

Why did African American Studies emerge?

To include Black history, culture, and experiences that traditional education often ignored.

How does African American Studies help us understand Africa, African Americans, and the African diaspora?

It uses evidence and multiple perspectives to study African-descended people and their experiences.

What is African American Studies?

What does African American Studies study?

History, culture, politics, identity, resistance, creativity, and community.

What is the African diaspora?

The spread of African people and cultures around the world.

What does interdisciplinary mean?

Using more than one subject area to understand a topic.

What does interdisciplinary mean in African American Studies?

Using different fields to understand Black history, culture, identity, and community.

Why is an interdisciplinary approach useful?

It gives us multiple perspectives.

Why is Africa important to African American Studies?

Africa is the birthplace of humanity and ancestral home of African Americans.

What developed in early African societies?

Trade, government, religion, technology, art, and music.

What misconception about Africa does African American Studies challenge?

That Africa was “without history” or disconnected from the world.

Why are early African societies important to study?

They show Africa had complex societies and histories.

What does diaspora mean?

The movement and spread of people and cultures from their homeland.

How did the transatlantic slave trade affect the African diaspora?

It caused the forced movement of Africans to the Americas.

What is voluntary movement?

Moving by choice.

What is forced movement?

Moving against your will.

What movements helped develop African American Studies?

Civil Rights, Black Power, anti-war activism, and student protests.

Why did African American Studies develop?

Schools often ignored Black history and culture.

What did students want?

Education that reflected their history, identity, and communities.

What did traditional higher education often center?

European perspectives.

What was the Black Campus Movement?

Student activism demanding Black Studies and greater representation.

When did the Black Campus Movement occur?

1965–1972.

What did students demand?

Black Studies, Black faculty, Black administrators, student support, and Black-focused courses

Why did students demand Black Studies?

To include Black history, culture, and experiences in education.

When was African American Studies formally established?

Late 1960s.

What college helped establish one of the first Black Studies departments?

San Francisco State College.

What happened at San Francisco State College in 1968?

Student activism helped create one of the first Black Studies departments.

What did African American Studies grow out of?

Activism and scholarship.