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AFRI 113
Final Exam
Question | Answer |
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3 terms used to describe music in Africa | Personal, Group, Listeners |
Personal Music | Performed by one person for their enjoyment |
Group Music | performed by a group for that group *Dancing* |
Listeners Music | performed by professionals for an audience |
Creolization | the blending of 2 or more older music traditions together |
The most popular music came from | folk music |
African Retentions in blues and jazz | 1. Call & Response 2. Multiple rythms (polyrhythms) |
2 ways brass bands were used in early jazz | 1. Funeral Parades 2. Business Ads |
Most popular forms of blues | Country, Classic, Urban |
Urban Blues | more sophisticated |
Classic Blues | public entertainment |
Country Blues | originated in the Mississippi delta |
Schools of rap | Nation conscious, Gangsta, Player & Lover Rap, Porno Rap |
2 problems when Egypt is not seen as an African Society | 1. the acheivements made in African Cultures has been down played. 2. The connections between Egypt and other African cultures have been ignored |
2 major categories of African Art | Traditional, Contemporary |
Traditional Art | portrays the circle of life |
Contemporary Art | Came from Nigeria |
First two African Americans to get public recognition within their artistic fields | Josua Johnston, Edmonia Lewis |
Josua Johnston | Portrait Painter |
Edmonia Lewis | Sculpture |
Haitian art was closely interwoven with their... | Belief in VooDoo (Religion) |
Types of literature that have grown during modern times, and at the same time | Traditional oral lit & Modern Written Lit |
The first work of African Literature | 1789 "the life of olaudah Equiano" Gustaves Vassa: The African |
The common theme or phenomenon represented in Caribbean literature | Emmigration |
The Caribbean dialect resulting from a blending of languages | Creole |
3 forms of African American Literature | Poetry, fiction, Drama |
This African American Poet used the Shakesperian Sonnet | Claude McKay |
Decade that began a new black poetic movement | 1960's 2nd harlem renaissance (Socially conscious Revolution) |
Dramatic production in which blacks saw accurate reflections of themselves | "A Raisin in the Sun" - Lorraine Hansberry 1959 |
3 views of sports held by leaders | Frederick Douglas- an oppressive instrument used to occupy the minds & energy of blacks, keeping them from more useful activities. Washington- had no time for sport or leisure Debois- Blacks had more important things to worry about |
What are husbands responsible for in a traditional African American Family? | The husbands are directly responsible to their in-laws for proper treatment of their wives |
Tracing Family membership in Africa | Patrilineal, Matrilineal, Bilateral |
Patrilineal tracing | Through the male |
Matrilineal tracing | Through the female |
Bilateral Tracing | through both equally |
Who is primarily responsible for discipline of children in societies traced through the female line? | The wife's brother, or uncle, is responsible for the discipline of the children |
2 ways modernization impacted African Families | 1. Wage Labor 2. The expansion of traditional agricultural production |
2 extreme thoughts about the African Family | Pathological/pathogeme (Ill) || Adaptive/ vitality - strong and adaptive (Durable, survivable) |
Was slave marriage taken seriously by slave masters? | No, Not at all |
predominance of which system, according to Fraizier, contributed the supposed weakness of the black family? | matriarchal system |
4 social/economic disadvantages | 1. blacks own or control few businesses or other income enhancing/job creating institutions. 2. blacks have little accumulated wealth. 3. blacks have historically experienced discrimination 4. blacks have lower levels of formal training/education |
Problems African American families are facing in the early 21st century | 1. Recession & Inflation 2. Industrial Shifts 3. Job mis-matches due to lack of adequate training |
How was Islam able to spread across Africa in a 50 year period? | Gihad/Holy war |
3 phases of the spread of Christianity in Africa | 1. Arrival in N&NE Africa in the 1st century 2. Arrival of portugese around 1415 3. The creation of liberra w/ a combined African American & west Indiana population |
common features of traditional African religion | the existence of superior being, sacrifices & prayers are offered to the being, worship is at specific places & occasions, rituals are related from birth to death, children are exposed to religion in daily life, respect for nature, reverence for ancestors |
3 general types of church structures | Congregationalist, Episcopalian, presbyterian |
Congregationalist | church leaders are accountable to the membership |
Episcopalian | control falls with 1 person or a few people |
Presbyterian | congregation selects it's leaders or officials |
Who was the pioneer in the independent black church (Methodist)? | Richard Allen |
At one time the only mainstream protestant denomination that spoke out against slavery was... | AME (African Methodist Episcopalian) || Methodist |
Timeline of the beginning of the black Islamic movement in the US | 1913 Moorish Science temple---> 1929 Nobel drew Ali died---> 1930 split in the MST || Wallace D ford takes over then disappears---> 1934 Elijah Muhammed (NOI)---> 1960 Malcom X---> 1975 Elijah Muhammed dies--> W.D. Muhmammed--> 1978 split again |
The bases for the political units in matrilineal/patrilineal societies | lineage- through the mother child bond is the basis of the political unit |
How Caribbean women resisted their enslavement on a daily basis | faking illness, refusing to work, leaving the estate w/o permission, using slave codes in their own favor especially maternity rights |
How had black women been described since the 1620's | undesirable, ugly, promiscuous |
Founder & First president of the National Council of colored women | Mary Church Terrell |
out of Kawaida came... | Kwanzaa- celebration of harvest |
who founded the holiday of Kwanza? | Maulana Karenga |
Umoja | Unity |
Kujichagulia | Self-Determination |
Ujima | Collective Work & Responsibility |
Ujamaa | Cooperative Economics |
Nia | Purpose |
Kuumba | Creativity |
Imani | Faith |
Kwanzaa celebration is on what date | December 26th Lasting 7 days |
Henry Blair | Seed planter/Corn Harvester |
Norbert Rillieux | Multiple effect vacuum operated sugar refiner |
Lewis Latimer | First Electric lamp w/carbon filament |
Jan Matzeliger | Shoe Lasting Machine |
Elijah McCoy | Automatic Lubricator for Steam engines |
Garret Morgan | Smoke inhalator, Belt fastener for sewing machines, Automatic traffic light |
Granville T. woods | Improved steam boiler furnace, Induction telegraphy system |
John Parker | Screw for tobacco presses |
William purvis | Machinery for making paper bags |
J.A. burr | A lawn mower |
G.F. Grant | golf tee |
J. Winters | Fire Escape ladder |
J. Standard | Refrigerator |
A. Miles | Elevator |
George Washington Carver | Created over 300 synthetic products form the peanut, 100 from sweet potato, and over 75 from the pecan |