Culture & Identity
This term refers to the dispersal of people from Africa to other parts of the world, particularly the Americas.
What is the African Diaspora?
This rice dish is a staple in West African cuisine and has sparked debates about its origin between Nigeria and Ghana
What is Jollof Rice?
This Afro-Cuban dance and music genre originated in the streets of Havana in the 1950s?
What is salsa?
This Jamaican-born activist and orator founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This creole language, spoken in Haiti, combines elements of French and African languages.
What is Haitian Creole?
This term describes people of mixed African and European ancestry in Latin America and the Caribbean.
What are Afro-Latinos?
This Dominican dish consists of mashed plantains topped with meat or vegetables.
What is mangú?
This Trinidadian music style, characterized by its use of steel drums, emerged in the 1930s.
What is calypso?
This Haitian revolutionary leader led the successful slave revolt that resulted in Haiti's independence.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This Martinican author wrote "Black Skin, White Masks" and "The Wretched of the Earth."
Who is Frantz Fanon?
This African American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s centered in Harlem, New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This spicy Jamaican dish consists of meat marinated in a mixture of spices and slow-cooked.
What is jerk chicken (or jerk pork)?
This Brazilian martial art combines elements of dance, acrobatics, and music.
What is capoeira?
This Cuban-born Afro-Latin jazz musician is known as the "King of the Mambo."
Who is Tito Puente?
This Jamaican patois phrase means "everything is alright" or "no worries."
What is "irie"?
This Caribbean territory was autonomous for only 8 days in 1898 before being colonized by the United States
What is Puerto Rico?
This staple food made from cassava is popular in many African and Caribbean countries.
What is fufu?
This Jamaican popular music genre evolved from ska and rocksteady in the late 1960s.
What is reggae?
This Dominican-American author wrote "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" and "In the Time of the Butterflies."
Who is Julia Alvarez?
This Nigerian author wrote "Things Fall Apart," a seminal work of African literature
Who is Chinua Achebe?
This travel guide, published between 1936-1966, helped African Americans navigate safely during the Jim Crow era.
What is The Green Book?
This Cuban sandwich features roasted pork, ham, Swiss cheese, and pickles on Cuban bread.
What is a Cubano?
This Afro-Dominican folk music and dance style is considered the national dance of the Dominican Republic.
What is merengue?
This Trinidadian-born activist and scholar was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.
Who is Stokely Carmichael (also known as Kwame Ture)?
This concept, developed by Édouard Glissant, describes the complex mix of Caribbean cultures.
What is Creolization?