Linguistic Racism
A term used to refer to single black women, who take advantage of governmental assistance.
Welfare Queen
What does AAVE stand for?
African American Vernacular English
The author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Maya Angelou
Where does the term "Cakewalk",defined as an easy victory, come from ?
The cakewalk was a dance performed by enslaved Black people on plantations before the Civil War. It was intended to be a mockery of the way White people danced.
Where does the term "rizz" come from?
Charisma
A term used to refer to a person of African and European descent during slavery
Mulatto
True or False
Is AAVE a separate language from English or dialect?Dialect.
The author of "The Color Purple".
Alice Walker
What was the original line in the game "Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe"?
Original Line: Catch a tiger by the toeCatch a slave/ n***** by the toe
What does the term "Finna" mean?
To go
Uncle Rukus from Boondocks is based off what other fictional character.
Uncle Tom
What century AAVE created in?
17th century
He was a black bisexual man during the Civil Rights movement, with his works involving "Giovanni's Room" and "The Fire Next Time"?
James Baldwin
A phrase commonly used by Black parents when a whooping is impending and you start crying.
Stop crying before I give you something to cry about.
A common word used in Black Floridians to refer to a young person/kid.
Jit
A term used to refer to a docile or servile black person toward white people, referring to a fictional character
Uncle Tom
True or False?
Ebonics and AAVE are the same concept.
True
Wrote a novel named "Beloved" detailing an enslaved woman named Seth and her dysfunctional family.
Toni Morrison
When you drive past Mcdonald's and you ask your parents to get some
You got Mcdonald's money?
What does the term "woke" originally mean?
Which president in the 1980's called African UN delegates "monkeys" while on a phone call with Richard Nixon?
Ronald Reagan
True or False?
Over 30 million people in America speak English in AAVE.
True
A civil rights advocate during the 1960's who created the poem "Harlem" about deferred dreams.
Langston Hughes
A phrase used for a person, usually a woman who is pretentious, stuck-up and typically rich, in the black community.
What does the term "Red-Boned" mean?
A light-skinned person