Before the Great Migration
Race is considered this kind of construct.
What is a social construct?
This is the period of time that defined by a mass move of Black folks from the South to the North; many people think there was one wave, but there were actually two!
What is the Great Migration?
This activist famously sat in the whites-only section of a bus in Montgomery, AL in 1955. Her actions and arrest helped to kick off the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Angela Davis describes the prison system, and the anti-Blackness that maintains it, as similar to this.
What is chattel slavery?
This acts as our warm-up assignment at the beginning of class.
What is the song memo?
This war was fought between the North and the South and was primarily concerned with chattel slavery's status in the United States.
What is the American Civil War?
This period of time is defined by an uptick in the creation and celebration of Black art, music, and literature from people like Zora Neale Hurston and Langton Hughes.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This category of "rights" is defined as the protected rights and privileges of citizens, in our case, American citizens.
What are civil rights?
This is the word that refers to shared culture, such as language, ancestry, practices, and beliefs that stem from a common national identity.
What is ethnicity?
This is the day of the week that weekly reflections are due.
What is Sunday (@ 11:59PM)?
This group, made up of people paying debts or serving time for crimes, was used for labor in the newly colonized United States before the institution of chattel slavery and the widespread use of labor from enslaved African people.
Who were indentured servants (from Britain)?
These laws were designed to get around southern states having to follow through with laws/constitutional amendments that protected the citizenship of Black folks, they were often upheld by mob violence.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Who were Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
Who is Trayvon Martin?
This is the annotation that Tamar asks you to put around the thesis of an article/essay for the Weekly Annotated Reading assignment.
What are brackets?
In 1865, this state was the last state to emancipate enslaved folks after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
What is Texas?
What is de jure segregation?
This group of activists, community organizers, and leaders--founded in California--was formed to protect/defend Black communities from state and racial violence, fill resource gaps through community service programs, and confront politicians. They had chapters across the country and were guided by a 10 Point Plan.
Who was The Black Panther Party?
This is the idea that, as a society, we have moved beyond the point where the color of someone's skin matters. It was popularized after Obama's election.
What is post-race?
There are three layers that should be included in each intellectual mixtape track: the audio layer, the vocal layer, and this layer.
What is the connection layer?
The period of time after the Civil War that centered the rebuilding of the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This scholar and important contributor to the foundations of American sociology created the term double consciousness to help describe the concept/experience of Black folks navigating the oftentimes conflicting experiences of being Black and American.
Who is W.E.B. du Bois?
"Separate but equal" remained a standard doctrine in the United States due to this case before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 in Topeka, Kansas helped paved the way for making segregation unconstitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Angela Davis describes the expanded network of companies, (lack of) social policies, and social attitudes around criminality that feed into prisons as this.
What is the prison industrial complex?
African American studies, like feminist studies, was established in American universities in this decade.
What was the 1960s?