Describe the pull and push of political forces influencing black civil rights activism and the sacrifices of Americans to ensure passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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The Ballot and the Bullet and the Continuing Relevance of fight for Voting Rights

ESSAY PROMPT
Think about why access to the ballot, a recurring theme in Malcolm X’s “1964 Ballot or the Bullet” talk, is associated with a quest for constitutional protections.

Then reply to the following:

Malcolm X recognizes the international dimension of the color-caste system in his writings and speeches. Explain the relevance of the Vietnamese and South African revolutionary movements in his Ballot or Bullet speech (1965) and why Vietnam and South Africa symbolize the international scope of the black quest for freedom and equality?

Describe the pull and push of political forces influencing black civil rights activism and the sacrifices of Americans to ensure passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Explain how some gender, sexual and family dynamics in African societies are unique and how some are similar to other societies. Include in your discussion a reference to precolonial Yoruba gender norms and ideas around sexuality as alluded to in film “Rafiki”.

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Short Assignment #3

Assignment – Explain how some gender, sexual and family dynamics in African societies are unique and how some are similar to other societies. Include in your discussion a reference to precolonial Yoruba gender norms and ideas around sexuality as alluded to in film “Rafiki”.

Readings/Film as mentioned above that you can choose to reference:

Session 6 Readings/Films – Topic: Gender /Kinship
1) Amadiume, Ifi (1987) “ Introduction” and “ Ideology of Gender” Male Daughters, Female
Husbands : Gender and Sex in African Society “ London. Zed Books.

2) Kihato, Caroline (2013) “ Turning the Home Inside-Out- Private Space and Everyday Politics” in
Migrant Women of Johannesburg : Everyday Life in an in Between City.pp.90-112.Palgrave
Macmillan. (dont have this attachment but feel free to google if you’d like to read/use it!)

3) Njambi, Wairimu and William O’ Brian( 2005) Revisiting “Woman-Woman Marriage”: Notes on
Gikuyu Women in African Gender Studies. pp 145-165. Palgrave Macmillan.

4) Nyanzi, Stella (2011) “Sleeping With My Dead Husbands Brother” The Impact of HIV on
Widowhood and Widow Inheritance in Kampala, Uganda” in Fourth Wave : Violence, Gender,
Culture, & HIV in the 21st Century .pp 295-317

5) Oyewumi, Oyeronke (2005)“Reconstituting The Cosmology and SocioCultural Institutions of
Oyo-Yoruba; Articulating the Yoruba World Sense in African Gender Studies. pp. 99-119.
Palgrave Macmillan.

6) Online Film “Neria”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Un8wyhOQ0&t=2844s

Session 7 Readings/Films – Topic: Sexualities
1) Hendriks, Thomas “SIM Cards of Desire: Sexual Versatility and Male Homoerotic Economy in
Urban Congo” pp. 230-242. American Ethnologist Volume 43 issue 2 2016

2) Mbasalaki, Phoebe Kisubi (2019) “Women Who Love Women Negotiation of Afican Traditions
and Kinship” in Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies. pp. 37-48

3) Nyanzi, Stella (2014) “ Queering Queer Africa” in “Reclaiming Afrikan: queer Perspectives on
Sexual Gender Identities” Modjaj Books Pty Ltd

4) Tamale, Sylvia (2006) “Eroticism, Sensuality and Womens Secrets Among the Baganda” Institute
of Development Studies 37:5 pp.89-97

5) Online Film “Rafiki” ( Kanopy)
https://nyu.kanopy.com/product/rafiki

How is Africa represented within the book? What images, ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about African society are expressed? How are gender relations described in the book? What do you perceive of women’s and men’s roles and/ or status?

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A book report

1) How is Africa represented within the book? What images, ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about African society are expressed?

2) How are gender relations described in the book? What do you perceive of women’s and men’s roles and/ or status?

3) How is the impact of colonialism or post colonialism on African society described within the story?

Define, discuss and critique each of the three story arcs (beginning, middle and end); how each one led to the next; how they overlapped and intersected.

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,

cite in a footnote (author, title,
publisher, year published and page the citation is from).
In, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Mr. Douglass’ tells of his journey, from an enslaved man to a free man, in three story arcs: Hugh Auld’s reaction to his wife’s (Sophia) kind treatment of and teaching Mr. Douglass to read; the year Mr. Douglass spent with Edward Covey (a sadistic slave breaker); and Mr. Douglass’ righteous indignation and fury that Hugh Auld felt entitled to take every cent Mr. Douglass earned as a skilled private contractor, by the sweat of his brow.
– Define, discuss and critique each of the three story arcs (beginning, middle and end); how each one led to the next; how they overlapped and intersected.

Go to Slavery Images and look through the categories that you find most interesting. Choose 3 images that you think best illustrate 3 examples from our readings that you want to address. You can pick any examples and pictures. Copy those images into a Word document. Under each image, briefly explain how the image illustrates an example you have chosen from our readings.

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Discovery Assignments

For Discovery 1, let’s focus on the Slavery Images source. Overall, this should include 3 images and 300 words of explanation following these directions:

First, go to Slavery Images and look through the categories that you find most interesting.

Choose 3 images that you think best illustrate 3 examples from our readings that you want to address. You can pick any examples and pictures.

Copy those images into a Word document.

Under each image, briefly (at least 100 words) explain how the image illustrates an example you have chosen from our readings. Do this for each image. Also, indicate which book and page(s) you are using for each example.

When you have completed the assignment, submit it to Discovery 1 – Slavery Images.
http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/798http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2763http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/3107

identify and explain a theme or recurring idea that comes from studying Fred Hampton. What did his life/actions teach the American public?

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Fred Hampton Research Paper

Instructions
Write a news article (opinion) that addresses the following: (Minimum of 2 pages. Must utilizes at least two articles from a database) -Fred Hampton & his Assassination -Cointelpro -GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN SOCIAL POLITICS

Other ideas you may want to include: -Rainbow Coalition -Bill O’Neal If you are struggling… -Understand that the idea of this paper is to identify and explain a theme or recurring idea that comes from studying Fred Hampton. What did his life/actions teach the American public?

Discuss the writers of the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances. How were they funded? Highlight the major figures and differing philosophies.

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Answer only three of the following four questions separately and to the best of your ability. Use only the text and our class discussions. No outside sources. Each of your three answers must be 1-2 pages in length. Each answer must be clearly marked with the corresponding question number. Do not retype the question. Your answers must be typed, double-spaced, 12-point font. All three answers should be sent as one document.

 

1: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey were the three preeminent black leaders of the late 19th and early 20th century. Discuss their origins, ascensions, philosophies, and conflicts.

 

2. Discuss the writers of the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances. How were they funded? Highlight the major figures and differing philosophies.

 

3. Discuss the relationship between the communist party and the struggle for civil rights in the United States. You should explain the significance of the Scottsboro Boys, the Red Scare, etc. You should explain why the communist party fell out of favor.

 

4. Highlight some of the key women involved in the traditional Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. How did they deal with both racism and sexism?

Source: Darlene Clark Hine, William Hine, and Stanley Harrold, African Americans A Concise History, 5th edition (Pearson, 2013) (Hereinafter referred to as “Hine”)

What different strategies did Africans use to gain their independence? Why was there so much conflict in the settler states? What part of this documentary troubled you the most?

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The Rise of Nationalism

You have to watch a hour long video and answer these questions below…
What different strategies did Africans use to gain their independence? Why was there so much conflict in the settler states? What part of this documentary troubled you the most?

What major features characterized Ibo culture before the Europeans came? What changes and cultural conflicts were created by the introduction of Christian missionaries and other Western influences into Ibo villages?

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African Culture

In the first paper you will be asked to write, we will explore traditional African culture and processes of culture change as presented in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart. As you read the novel, refer as needed to “A Glossary of Ibo Words and Phrases” at the back of the book. This assignment will also provide an opportunity to explore the impact of European colonization and Westernization on Africa in greater depth than can be obtained from other required readings.

This paper should discuss one sub-Saharan African culture, that of the Ibo (in what is today southeastern Nigeria) “in its first encounter with colonialism and Christianity at the turn of the century” — about 1900. I have chosen Things Fall Apart because of the particular cultural insights it provides. As you read and take notes, be sure to pay attention to the following questions:

What major features characterized Ibo culture before the Europeans came?
What changes and cultural conflicts were created by the introduction of Christian missionaries and other Western influences into Ibo villages?
What seems to have been the net impact of the coming of the Europeans on Ibo culture?

Complete a qualitative reflective paper in which you talk about your topic, what you learned, and how it affected you.

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African Americans in a marginalized society

Complete a qualitative reflective paper in which you talk about your topic, what you learned, and how it affected you. You should address factors related to disadvantages, prejudices/discrimination against, stereotypes, special challenges, segregation, cultural concepts, assimilation, economics, etc.