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This author wrote Pudd’nhead Wilson and went by the pen name of mark Twain.
Who is Samuel Clemens?
100
This writer, born in the Dominican Republic, wrote The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and now lives in Boston, MA.
Who is Junot Diaz?
100
This Indigenous population of the Western hemisphere is the only group that engages in the ceremonial “fire ball” sport.(A game where players play on behalf of community or family member who is ill.)
Who are the Wampanoags?
100
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. (1902-1967) ( I, too, am America.)
Who was Langston Hughes ?
100
These locations provide cultural, social and educational activities to enhance the experience of diverse students at UMass Amherst community.
What are the CMASS Cultural Centers
200
This memoir/novel, written by Maxine Hong Kingston, is about a girl growing up Chinese American in San Francisco.
What is The Woman Warrior?
200
Hailing from Detroit Michigan in 1971 to South Africa in 1998 for a major music comeback, this singer, song writer, activist was a major influence on a number of Euro-American singers and musicians who became famous stars in America.
Who is Sixto Rodriguez?
200
This Indigenous nation of peoples of North America had an expansive homeland territory that covered what is now known as NC, TN, GA, and parts of S.C. and WVA. (before the colonial period.) Today still live in small a in a small area of N.C., a small area of TN, a small area of GA and a portion of OK.
Who are the Cherokee People?
200
She is a Guadeloupean, French-language author (1937)  of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu.
Who is Maryse Condé?
200
This group will be performing in Wilder Hall on October 19th at 6pm.
Who are PHALLACIES?
300
This is the fastest growing group of “minorities” in the United states according to the latest census .
Who are Asian Americans?
300
He was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
Who was Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
300
Many USA states, towns and Rivers have names from the Ancestral peoples that inhabited there. This State’s name means “Great mountain place” or “Mountain place.”
What is Massachusetts?
300
Case which legally ended racial segregation in public schools of United States. (1954)
What is Brown vs Board of education?
300
This campus-wide web based application allows students to subscribe to the CMASS mailing list by completing the affiliation form.
What is Campus Pulse?
400
This group of Asian Americans were categorized as American Nationals by the U.S. government in the early 1900’s?
Who are Filipino Americans?
400
He is a Bolivian politician and activist who has served as President of Bolivia since 2006.
Who is Evo Morales?
400
She was born in Oakland, California, is of Hopi, Miwok descent. An artist, writer, and anthropologist, she is the author of the poetry Collections Academic Squaw: Reports to the World from the Ivory Tower (1977); What Happened When the Hopi Hit New York (1982); The Half breed Chronicles and Other Poems (1985); Lost Copper (1980), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Bone Dance: New and Selected Poems 1965–1992 (1994).
Who is Wendy Rose, or Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards?
400
She was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. ("Ain't I a Woman?” Speech)
Who was Sojourner Truth?
400
This is Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month in the United States.
What is May?
500
He was an Indian musician who was one of the best-known exponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century. (1920-2012)
Who was Ravi Shankar?
500
This is a genre of Brazilian music, which developed and was popularized in the 1950s and '60s. Today is one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.
What is Bossa Nova?
500
She was a member of the Ho-chunk Nation and a valued faculty member of the School of Education here at UMASS Amherst. known For her commitment to Native Heritage, Language Preservation and Community Development.
Who was Josephine White Eagle?
500
This is a genre of music that originated in African American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.  (Mainly in the South of U.S.)
What is Blues?
500
This bi-annual event in partnership with the UMASS Police Department and Men & Masculinities has teams “race” and "compete" around the UMass campus and strive to arrive first at "pit stops" at the end of each leg of the race.
What is The Amazing Race?