vocab
to deny responsibility or involvement in something
what is disavowal?
the Supreme Court decision which overturned Oklahoma's grandfather clause
what was Guinn v U.S (1915)?
"______ fails to expand the space of the other but merely places the self in its stead"
what is empathy?
founder of The Crisis and believed that integration and the petition for political rights through respectability and upholding the system slavery inaugurated was wrong
who was W.E.B DuBois?
____ was a genre of music created by _____ that merged in the 1890s written for performance on the piano
what is ragtime created by Scott Joplin?
a medieval patriarchal code of honor dictating male behavior and virtues of courage and piety
what is chivalry?
the Supreme Court decision in 1896 that sanctioned legal segregation
what was Plessy v Ferguson?
the internal split between how you understand yourself and the psyche imposed by how the world sees you
what is double consciousness?
name for the black regiments that served with the U.S Army on the western frontier from the 1870s to 1890s given by the Comanche and Cheyanne Indigenous groups.
who were the buffalo soldiers?
name for the educated black elite of the 19th century that would have to be questioned in the larger 'problem of the color line'
to erase or wipe away into obliteration
what is effacement?
an organization of black southern farmers in the 1880s and 1890s that organized for improved conditions and income for black landowners, renters, and sharecroppers
what was the colored farmers' alliance?
"_____ -- that is the joy made possible by virtue of the replaceability and interchangeability endemic to the commodity -- and by the extensive capacities of property..."
what is the fungibility of the slave?
a journalist, born a slave, who co-created the Negro Fellowship league and used writing to politically organize, inform black people and establish an anti-lynching campaign
who was Ida B. Wells?
when the enslaved slipped away to have secret meetings, they would call it "_____ ____ _____ ...."
what is stealing away / stealing the meeting / stealing themselves?
a system which tied farmers, renters and sharecroppers with debt to working land until the debt is paid off
what is peonage?
outlaws slavery and indentured servitude except if convicted of a crime, provides birthright citizenship, and says the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of race, creed or previous status of servitude
what are the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments?
_____ or the power exercised in looking that opens the captive body to the lewd desires and interests of would-be owners
what is the gaze?
established the Tuskegee Machine as part of articulated priorities to advance the Black community?
who was Booker T. Washington?
passed to support mechanical and agricultural education
what was the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act?
the process of reshaping and breaking the will of a person to render them a slave and suitable for consumption
what is seasoning?
these delegates gathered and insisted that black people no longer quietly accept the loss of political rights
what is the Niagara Movement?
the immaterial structure which limits perception, which endorse disavowal, prevent others from questioning and seeing what is foundational in racial relations and the world structure
what is the veil?
_____ pushed for the invasion and theft of Puerto Rico, Guam after the war over Cuba
who was President William McKinley?
name any of the ships cited in Woodard's explanation of cannibalism as foundation of U.S culture and white/nonblack social life
what were the Aetna, Essex, Charming Sally? (one is okay)