Literary Terms
These two genres best describe the ballad of John Henry that we watched in class.
The Green Book reveals the oft-neglected history of these business owners?
Who are Black female entrepreneurs?
This author is considered the mother of African American literature.
Who is Phillis Wheatley (Peters)?
With both a native writer and a native director, this film is considered the first mainstream Hollywood film to emphasize native representation.
What is Smoke Signals?
This character fled from the Washington household in spite of the fine clothes, preferring her freedom most of all.
This genre asserts mastery over all that which has been forcibly withheld by the institution of slavery and white supremacy.
What is the enslaved person's narrative?
This legislation endangered all people of color even in the north by requiring northern cooperation to return people to slavery.
For a long time, readers thought Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was fiction by the white author Lydia Maria Child, rather than giving credit to this autobiographical author.
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
The titular process of this story involves transportation via flight, water, and memory.
What is "Conduction"?
This author argued on behalf of the enslaved people murdered aboard the Zong, sparking abolitionist movements.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
This myth represents alternate modes of mobility as well as other ways of being and knowing for people within slavery.
What is the flying Africans?
This author said his short story "Conduction" was inspired by the visions of Harriet Tubman.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
This text highlights a Black middle class who wanted to travel safely and comfortably.
What is The Green Book?
This character protested industrialization that alienated his fellow workers with the claim "A man ain't nothin' but a man."
Who is John Henry?
This scholarly process renews interest in authors and texts who've been neglected (often unfairly) by the literary establishment.
What is (feminist) recovery work?
This concept posits that the private, domestic sphere is best suited for women and that the public sphere is best suited for men. It ignores realities of race and class.
What is the cult of domesticity/true womanhood?
This spoken word poet explores her Dominican-American experiences.
Who is Elizabeth Acevedo?
This text is a novel in verse that connects personal and communal histories and memories as it retraces the routes of the Great Migration.
What is Brown Girl Dreaming?
This character was called She-Moses in her day.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Two of our authors use this style of poem to elevate the ordinary (i.e., a rat and a city bus).
What is an ode?
This movement represents the exodus from the South after the era of institutional slavery, where people moved north and west in search of better working conditions.
What is the Great Migration?
She reframes the Enlightenment and its failures by centering the experiences of Phillis Wheatley in The Age of Phillis.
Who is Honorée Fanonne Jeffers?
Arianna Brown writes this poem of praise to connect a humble means of transportation with social justice movements.
What is "Ode to the City Bus"?
This woman formed an essential friendship with Phillis Wheatley.
Who is Obour Tanner?