Introduction to Black Studies, Fall 2007

1. The author of “What is this ‘Black’ in Black popular culture” was:

a. Halford Fairchild

b. Dipa Basu

c. Katie Geneva Cannon

d. Jacquelyn Grant

e. None of the above (specify): _______________________

2. In the above article, the author argues that Black popular culture is “…an arena that is profoundly mythic.” According to this, which of the following is NOT true of what is meant in this context?

a. It is the arena where we find who we really are, the truth of our experience.

b. It is a theater of popular desires

c. It is a theater of popular fantasies

d. It is where we discover and play with the identifications of ourselves

e. All of the above are true

In “Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation,” it was noted that state laws in the early 1700s adopted the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which meant that the status (free or slave) of children would follow the condition of the:

a. Uncle

b. Aunt

c. Siblings

d. Father

e. Mother

4. In the above article, three ideological myths characterized Christian antebellum society. These were: (1) that slavery was good for the enslaved; (2) that the oppression of Blacks was part of “divine will,” and (3) that

a. The Bible condoned slavery

b. Women are subordinate to men

c. Homosexuality is to be condemned

d. Capitalism is justified

e. Blacks are subhuman

5. In “Black Theology and the Black Woman,” a question is asked, “Where are the Black women in Black theology?” The answer is:

a. At the forefront

b. In the pulpit

c. In the church pews

d. Obvious

e. Invisible

6. The author of the above article, at the 1971 Annual Convocation of the National Conference of Black Churchmen (held at the Liberty Baptist Church in Chicago), approached the pulpit to place her _______ near the speaker, but was told that women could not enter the pulpit area. What did she try to place there?

a. A Bible

b. Her resume

c. A camera

d. A cassette recorder

e. None of the above (specify): ______________________

7. In the above article, it is argued that Black churchmen have not dealt with the oppression of Black women with one notable exception. That exception was:

a. Jesse Jackson

b. Al Sharpton

c. Richard Allen

d. Sojourner Truth

e. Frederick Douglass

8. The above article ends with a quote from a famous person in Black history who spoke to the need to simultaneously combat racism and sexism. That person, ______, said we need to be ‘keeping the thing going while things are stirring’

a. Jesse Jackson

b. Al Sharpton

c. Richard Allen

d. Sojourner Truth

e. Frederick Douglass

9. The film, “Black History, Lost Stolen or Strayed,” was narrated by

a. Halford Fairchild

b. Frederick Douglass

c. Vincent Harding

d. Henry Louis Gates

e. None of the above: (specify): __________________________