Creating Black America
This ancient civilization’s philosophy and legacy was one of the first civilzations credit for giving Black Americans a sense of historical pride and connection to greatness.
What is Kemet (Egypt)?
These two movements in the 1960s–70s, combined with student activism, helped push U.S. colleges to adopt African American Studies programs.
These two movements in the 1960s–70s, combined with student activism, helped push U.S. colleges to adopt African American Studies programs.
This scholar pioneered the development of Afrocentricity as a formal methodology in the 1980s.
Who is Molefi Kete Asante?
This official College Board tool helps students find schools that offer AP exams and may accept exam-only students.
What is the AP Course Ledger?
This term describes how African American Studies combines history, art, literature, and sociology into one field.
What is “interdisciplinary”?
Most African Americans claim a general African heritage instead of identifying with specific ethnic groups like Ibo or Yoruba. This reflects what idea about identity?
What is a collective or pan-African identity?
This 1968 event at San Francisco State is often cited as the first successful strike that led to the creation of a Black Studies department.
What is the Black Student Union strike at San Francisco State?
Asante defines Afrocentricity as a perspective that insists that Africans should be seen as this — not as passive recipients of others’ narratives.
What is “subjects rather than objects”?
Students can use this filter on the AP Course Ledger to locate schools offering their exact AP subject?
What is the “Course” filter?
Carter G. Woodson founded this organization in 1915, which helped formalize Black History as an academic field.
What is the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History?
This powerful 20th-century movement promoted pride, independence, and unity among people of African descent worldwide.
What is the Black Nationalist Movement?
This scholar, sometimes called the “Father of Black History,” helped lay the groundwork for African American Studies through his founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
Who is Carter G. Woodson
These five principles or elements help define Asante’s Afrocentric paradigm (e.g. centeredness, agency) Name any two.
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Students must confirm this specific detail to ensure they know how and when to officially sign up for their exam.
What is the registration process and deadline?
This 1960s–1970s movement led by students of color pushed for more Black faculty, new cultural centers, and inclusive curriculum in colleges.
What is the Black Campus Movement?
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Black people related to Africa through these two perspectives.
What are pride in ancestry and efforts toward liberation or unity?
Africa is the second largest continent and is divided into these zones like desert, tropical, and Mediterranean.
What are the climate zones (desert, semiarid, savannah, tropical rainforest, Mediterranean)
These are the names of two ancient African empires mentioned in historical overviews that flourished during Europe’s so-called “dark ages.”
What are Mali and Ghana (or Songhai)?
Name two important questions students should ask when contacting potential AP testing schools
What are “Do you accept exam-only students?” and “What is your exam fee and registration process?”
The earliest human ancestor, nicknamed “Lucy,” was discovered in this African country in 1974.
What is Ethiopia?
These individuals were early leaders in building pride and historical awareness among African Americans.
Name five
Who were Carter G. Woodson, Anna Julia Cooper, Marcus Garvey,Schomburg, .....?
The Sahel and savannah regions became especially important for settlement due to three advantages: river access, fertile land, and this connecting role between the Sahara and tropical forest regions.
What is the role as a trade intermediary (linking north and south)
These climate/trade zones in Africa (e.g. savannah, Sahel, desert) shaped settlement patterns and trade routes.
What are the desert, Sahel (semiarid), savannah, tropical rainforest, and Mediterranean zones?
A fully completed tracker should show these five tasks marked as “Done” with verification.
What are/is: researched 3 schools, confirmed 1 site, submitted form, paid exam fee, and received confirmation?
These three West African empires were centers of learning and trade during the Middle Ages
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?