Introduction to Africana / African American / Black Studies
A group working toward equality and legal rights for a marginalized group. Most commonly referring to the movement of organizations led by African Americans in the U.S. between the 1940s and 1970s that advocated for equality in education, employment, housing, voting, and other major civil rights areas.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This California college was the site of the longest student strike in U.S. history, which led to the creation of the first College of Ethnic Studies.
What is San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University)?
Ethnic Studies programs today have roots in movements like the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program and the famous Native American protest at this historic San Francisco prison.
What is Alcatraz?
This term describes the study of race, culture, and history of people traditionally marginalized in mainstream curricula.
What is Ethnic Studies?
This study explicitly focuses on the experiences of people whose family lineage includes African peoples who were enslaved in the United States.
What is African American Studies?
When Black, Asian, and Latinx students united to demand change together, they formed this new coalition.
What is the Third World Liberation Front?
Before Ethnic Studies, most U.S. college courses focused on this perspective.
What is Eurocentric / white and Western topics?
This teacher is the very first person to teach the subject of Ethnic Studies at Chartwell School.
Who is Mr. Bouma?
These fields of study refer broadly to the experiences of people with African heritage throughout the world.
What are Africana and Black Studies?
What is Ethnic Studies?
The strike at SF State lasted this long.
What is five months?
Ethnic Studies programs include courses on these four groups' histories.
Who are African American, Latinx, Asian Americans, and Native Americans?
A movement and political belief system that emphasizes building Black-serving institutions and leaders.
What is Black Power?
Also a Marvel Superhero, this revolutionary organization protested police brutality in communities of color and had strong ties to student activists at SF State.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Ethnic Studies and modern DEI initiatives aim to equalize education by improving student experiences and this aspect of university culture, which some states are now rolling back. DEI stands for these three words.
What are Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
The first official College of Ethnic Studies in the United States was established at this university.
What is San Francisco State University?
The term Black Power was coined by this person during a speech after being arrested for the 27th time in 1966.
Who is Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)?
This English graduate student and Black Panther Party minister of education was suspended, sparking the start of the strike.
Who is George Murray?
Created by black students at the college, this student organization developed the Black Arts and Culture series and helped fund early Ethnic Studies programs.
What is the Black Student Union (BSU)?
These two college students helped organize the first Black Student Union in the country at San Francisco State.
Who are Jimmy Garrett and Jerry Varnado?