AAS 2320 FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS
WITH ALL CORRECT & VERIFIED ANSWERS
Rap draws on many cultural and pop traditions, name two identified in your text: Correct answer--
Jamaican toasting
-African American preachers, particularly in holiness churches
-Scat singing and other vocalization styles developed in jazz
-R&B singing using dramatic spoken interludes
-"Personality" DJs on the radio in the '50s, '60s, and '70s
-Recording by the Black Arts Movement poets of the '60s and '70s
-Risque or "blue" recordings
According to your assigned reading, speech that is used for artful communication is speech as
_______________ Correct answer-Performance
The Combahee River Collective Statement was written in what year? Correct answer-1977
According to your assigned reading, speech that is used for everyday communication is speech as
_______________ Correct answer-Practice
The women of the Combahee River Collective parted ways from the __________ to create, define,
and clarify their own politics. Correct answer-NBFO - National Black Feminist Organization
Who were the primary authors of the Combahee River Collective Statement? Correct answer-
Demita Frazier
Beverly Smith
Barbara Smith
According to your assigned reading, two common formats for playing the dozens are: Correct
answer-Duel and Round
What are the three ways that Black Nationalism appears in new school rap? Correct answer--
Common agenda
-Common cultural perspective
-Common sense of oppression
What city and state did Robert William's activism take place? Correct answer-Monroe, North
Carolina
Identify four demands of the Black Panther Party's Ten-Point Platform. Correct answer--Freedom
-Full employment for our people
-End to the robbery by Capitalists
, -Decent Housing
-Education
-Exempt from military service
-End to police brutality
-Freedom for all black men held in prisons and jails
-Trial by jury of peer group or black community
-Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice and Peace
white flight Correct answer-The movement of whites out of urban areas to racially exclusive
suburbs that was facilitated by federal highway construction, federally subsidized low-interest loans,
and discrimination against blacks.
Civil Rights Act (1964) Correct answer-A law that prohibiting discrimination in places of public
accommodation, outlawing bias in federally assisted programs, authorizing the Justice Department to
initiate desegregation lawsuits, and providing technical and financial aid to communities
desegregating their schools.
affirmative action Correct answer-A set of ideas and programs aimed at compensating African
Americans for past discrimination by giving them preferential treatment in hiring and school
admissions.
Title VII Correct answer-The most contentious part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it banned
discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and created
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate and litigate cases of job
discrimination.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project Correct answer-A massive education and voter registration
campaign conducted in the summer of 1964.
Bloody Sunday Correct answer-A 1965 confrontation between black voting rights advocates and
Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) Correct answer-The case in which the
Supreme Court ruled that the university's medical school at Davis had discriminated against Allan
Bakke, a white male, when it took race into account in determining admissions.
Black Arts Movement Correct answer-The cultural side of black power, in which black musicians,
artists, dancers, playwrights, and novelists used their talent to demonstrate black pride and
nationhood.
Moynihan Report Correct answer-The controversial 1965 report that labeled the black family
dysfunctional and set off a storm of protest within black America.
WITH ALL CORRECT & VERIFIED ANSWERS
Rap draws on many cultural and pop traditions, name two identified in your text: Correct answer--
Jamaican toasting
-African American preachers, particularly in holiness churches
-Scat singing and other vocalization styles developed in jazz
-R&B singing using dramatic spoken interludes
-"Personality" DJs on the radio in the '50s, '60s, and '70s
-Recording by the Black Arts Movement poets of the '60s and '70s
-Risque or "blue" recordings
According to your assigned reading, speech that is used for artful communication is speech as
_______________ Correct answer-Performance
The Combahee River Collective Statement was written in what year? Correct answer-1977
According to your assigned reading, speech that is used for everyday communication is speech as
_______________ Correct answer-Practice
The women of the Combahee River Collective parted ways from the __________ to create, define,
and clarify their own politics. Correct answer-NBFO - National Black Feminist Organization
Who were the primary authors of the Combahee River Collective Statement? Correct answer-
Demita Frazier
Beverly Smith
Barbara Smith
According to your assigned reading, two common formats for playing the dozens are: Correct
answer-Duel and Round
What are the three ways that Black Nationalism appears in new school rap? Correct answer--
Common agenda
-Common cultural perspective
-Common sense of oppression
What city and state did Robert William's activism take place? Correct answer-Monroe, North
Carolina
Identify four demands of the Black Panther Party's Ten-Point Platform. Correct answer--Freedom
-Full employment for our people
-End to the robbery by Capitalists
, -Decent Housing
-Education
-Exempt from military service
-End to police brutality
-Freedom for all black men held in prisons and jails
-Trial by jury of peer group or black community
-Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice and Peace
white flight Correct answer-The movement of whites out of urban areas to racially exclusive
suburbs that was facilitated by federal highway construction, federally subsidized low-interest loans,
and discrimination against blacks.
Civil Rights Act (1964) Correct answer-A law that prohibiting discrimination in places of public
accommodation, outlawing bias in federally assisted programs, authorizing the Justice Department to
initiate desegregation lawsuits, and providing technical and financial aid to communities
desegregating their schools.
affirmative action Correct answer-A set of ideas and programs aimed at compensating African
Americans for past discrimination by giving them preferential treatment in hiring and school
admissions.
Title VII Correct answer-The most contentious part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it banned
discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and created
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate and litigate cases of job
discrimination.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project Correct answer-A massive education and voter registration
campaign conducted in the summer of 1964.
Bloody Sunday Correct answer-A 1965 confrontation between black voting rights advocates and
Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) Correct answer-The case in which the
Supreme Court ruled that the university's medical school at Davis had discriminated against Allan
Bakke, a white male, when it took race into account in determining admissions.
Black Arts Movement Correct answer-The cultural side of black power, in which black musicians,
artists, dancers, playwrights, and novelists used their talent to demonstrate black pride and
nationhood.
Moynihan Report Correct answer-The controversial 1965 report that labeled the black family
dysfunctional and set off a storm of protest within black America.
