Migration & Diaspora
This term describes African-descended communities outside Africa.
What is the African diaspora?
The study of how race, class, and gender work together to shape experiences.
What is intersectionality?
This 1939 Billie Holiday song protested lynching.
What is “Strange Fruit”?
This 1739 South Carolina rebellion is the largest slave uprising in colonial North America.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Unit 1 focuses on the beginning of African diaspora communities and this continent as their origin.
What is Africa?
The forced relocation of Africans to the Americas between the 16th–19th centuries.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
African American women who led activism, balancing gender and racial oppression, are often examples of this.
What is intersectional leadership/resistance?
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “I, Too, Sing America.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
This group of activists in the 1960s advocated for Black self-defense and community programs.
Who are the Black Panther Party?
Unit 2 examines slavery, freedom, and this form of African American resistance.
What is enslaved resistance?
The early 20th-century movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to urban North.
What is the Great Migration?
These multiple aspects of identity, including religion and nationality, influence individual perspectives in African American communities
What are social categories?
These African American musicians popularized a style blending jazz, gospel, and blues in the 1960s.
Who are Motown artists?
African Americans formed these to fight for women’s rights and economic empowerment in the late 19th–early 20th centuries
What are clubs and mutual aid societies?
Unit 3 explores daily practices of freedom, including family networks and these cultural traditions.
What are African American community practices?
Caribbean and Brazilian communities of African descent are examples of this broader phenomenon.
What is the African diaspora?
This author wrote about race, class, and gender in “Black Feminist Thought.”
Who is Patricia Hill Collins?
This contemporary artist uses rap to highlight social injustice in the United States.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
The 1955–1956 bus boycott in Montgomery exemplifies this form of civil resistance.
What is nonviolent protest?
Unit 4 debates the effectiveness of different strategies for political and social change, including this 1960s movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This enslaved African woman wrote a poem in the 1700s documenting her capture and enslavement.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
In the Harlem Renaissance, many writers explored intersections of race, gender, and class in this type of literature
What is African American literature/modernist literature?
The term for artistic, literary, or cultural expression celebrating African heritage and beauty.
What is Afrocentrism?
This 1963 march demonstrated collective resilience and demand for civil rights in Washington, D.C.
What is the March on Washington?
The Great Migration connects Unit 1 origins with Unit 3, showing movement from South to these areas in the North.
What are urban centers/cities?