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[Mary Fernandez]

African American Studies 100
Midterm Examination

Name								October 15, 2009


Answer the following questions in a short paragraph.  Try to use key terms.


1.	Explain the term “discourse” and its significance for African
American Studies?
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
2.	What possible disadvantages did Virginia enslaved persons encounter
after the turn of the 19th century that their African and Creole
forebears never encountered?
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
3.	How does a film like “Sankofa” rewrite a film like “Mandingo”?
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
4.	How did Olauduh Equiano compare African slavery to the enslavement
of Africans in the western hemisphere, specifically in the English
colonies?
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												

5.	What is the significance of using a term like  “Atlantic Africans”
to represent enslaved people who survived Middle Passage and worked
for the rest of their lives in North America?
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												

6.	What were the two key events in Frederick Douglass’ early life? How
did they enable him to escape from slavery?
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												


7.	Which discourses did David Walker use to convince his audience of
the importance of militant resistance to slavery?
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												

8.	Harriet Jacobs writes, “the condition of a slave confuses all
principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them
impossible.”  Based on your reading of her narrative, is this a
challenge to the western system of logic, which has organized black
slavery, or is it a plea for inclusion into that logical system?
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
												
	


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Mary Fernandez
Emory University 2012
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Atlanta Ga.
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Phone: 732-857-7004
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that
greatness is never a given. It must be earned.
President Barack Obama
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