Representation
A common stereotype of Black women, often depicted as an overweight, asexual, docile dark skinned woman.
What is a mammy?
Where is McDonalds?
According to Levine, one man's religion is another man's this.
What is superstition?
Common name for prominent group of abolitionists who also advocated for women's suffrage.
Who were the Garrisonians?
African American religious music shifted from this to that following the legal end of enslavement.
What is spirituals to gospel music?
Name of the film screened in the White House by President Woodrow Wilson.
What is Birth of a Nation?
What is a stranger?
The most notorious animal star of trickster tales.
Who is Brer Rabbit?
Actually wrote three autobiographies in his lifetime.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
Levine states that these lose their power when they are written down.
What are words?
Stuart Hall stated that this is hidden within mass media.
What is ideology?
Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X were all assassinated before this age.
What is 40?
The assertion that slave tales were didactic in nature is meant to convey that they were this.
What is instructive?
Author of one of the first slave narratives to gain widespread readership that incorporated life in Africa.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
According to Dr. Marshall, Christians used the assertion that Black people were descended from this person to justify slavery.
Who is Ham (son of Noah)?
His goal was to devise strategies to hear the voices that had, up until that point, been effectively silenced by historical neglect.
Who is Lawrence Levine?
Kelley describes this as the political culture that manifest itself in daily conversations, folklore, jokes, songs and other cultural practices.
What are the politics of the everyday?
According to Levine, these three elements constituted the sacred world of Black slaves.
What are music, religion, and folk beliefs?
What are everyday forms of resistance?
What is ancestor worship?
These provide a measure of safety and solace by legitimizing voices that are typically silenced.
What are hush harbors?
Both Baldwin and Langston Hughes identified this word as being unconsciously associated with all of society's virtues.
What is white?
An important distinction in slave tales that referenced theft.
What is stealing v. taking?
The person who transcribed Jordan Anderson's response to his former enslaver.
Who is Valentine Winters?
Site of the water-walking Africans, who determined to walk back to Africa rather than stay enslaved in the US.
What is Ibo Landing?