Language
Reflects beliefs and practices shared in a community
What is Language?
The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends on the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations and the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious or social groups; (and) the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize an institution or organization.
What is Webster's Definition of Culture?
What is Identity?
The first African American President of the United States - 44th President. Author of Dreams from My Father. Kenyan descent.
Who is Barack Hussein Obama?
The 5 major characteristics that differentiate human language from that of animals
What is arbitrary, social, symbolic, vocal, non-instinctive, conventional, productive, and creative?
A complex multi-level construct, shared, patterned, dynamic, and collective
What are the characteristics of culture?
The three levels of human identity that shape how people express differences
What is Individual, Universal, and Social Group?
Who is Maya Angelou?
The reason we do not have just one language
They shape our private and collectives codes of conduct, dictate affairs and dealings between individuals, gender, and age-based social groups.
What are social institutions?
Sandra Laing struggled to understand and define her racial identity while living in Apartheid South Africa in this film
What is Skin?
The former president of South Africa born in a small village known as Transkei. Who fought against HIV/AIDS, refused to give up on his country and people, and showed that a single person could be a catalyst for change
Who is Nelson Mandela?
These help us examine how minority languages are treated based on power relations
African indigenous languages and knowledge were often disregarded by these people
Who are the colonial powers (colonizers)?
These are essential to creating, sustaining, and reclaiming African Identities
What are names?
In colonial administrations of African schooling, this was considered a symbol of high status
What is the ability to speak English?
Essential means for documentation, education, and entertainment in African societies
What are Folktales?
The foundation of institutionalized discrimination, such as sexism, racism, ableism, etc.
What is an uneven distribution of power in dominant groups vs non-dominant groups?
Author of Africa's Identity Revolution in the 21st Century, the best professor at the University of Georgia!
Who is Dr. Dainess M. Maganda?