Key Terms
Black Names
Black Music
Black Languages
Black Pop-Culture
100
The ancestral homeland of all Black people around the world.
What is Africa?
100
Black names like Mary, Joseph, David, John and Christopher can be found originally in this book.
What is the Bible?
100
This instrument is at the heart of all music descended from the African diaspora.
What are the drums?
100
The language that Black people in the Dominican Republic speak.
What is Spanish?
100
This iconic Black comedian plays Prince Akeem in the movie "Coming to America".
Who is Eddie Murphy?
200
The founder of the Back to Africa movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
200
This famous boxer changed his name in order to renounce his former "slave name." Tell me his chosen name AND his former "slave name".
What is Cassius Clay & Muhammad Ali?
200
Which of these genres is not descended from African roots: rock n roll, gospel, techno, blues, salsa, reggae?
Trick Question: all of these were descended from the drums of West African music!
200
People from Haiti speak French Creole because the island was colonized by this country.
Who is France?
200
The name of this character in the movie "Black Panther".
Who is Eric Killmonger?
300
The meaning of this key phrase from Week 1 of class: "Blackness is not homogenous."
What is Black people are not all the same?
300
Many Black Americans have last names that can be traced back to European countries because of this historical phenomenon.
What is colonization?
300
Modern day rappers and spoken word artists are believed to descend from this group of West African oral historians.
Who are griots?
300
Use one of the grammar rules of Black English/AAVE in a sentence.
Habitual be: "She be chilling."
Double-negative: "Don't nobody care."
Missing "be" verb: "He ugly" vs. "He is ugly."
3rd person singular: "She talk too much." vs. She talks too much."
300
In the movie Roots, what was the real name of the enslaved man that was forced to accept the name "Tobe".
Who is Kunta Kente?
400
Blending two cultures together to make a new, unique culture.
What is creolization?
400
African American names such as Kareem, Saniyah, Asim & Jahlil have roots in this language.
What is Arabic?
400
This modern genre of African music has made it's way into the mainstream of Black American music.
What is Afrobeats?
400
The word "Ebonics" (which was invented to describe Black American language) is a combination of these two words.
What is "Ebony" + "Phonics"?
400
Name this artist and song.
Who is Busta Rhymes? What is "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See"?
500
This theory about Black language suggests that African Americans learned a broken version of English from uneducated white people.
What is the Dialect Theory?
500
Black American names like La'quisha and Da'shawn are evidence of creolization with this European language.
What is French?
500
The complex rhythms in music that make you want to dance.
What are polyrhythms?
500
This language is a "broken"/Creole English spoken by Jamaican people.
What is Patois?
500
In the movie "Black Panther", villain Killmonger is expressing a belief in what key class idea in this scene:
What is Pan-Africanism?