Deck 23: African Americans at the Millennium

Question 1

Which of the following is not true about rap music?

A) It is often composed of tracks from different songs.
B) It draws inspiration from earlier versions of black music.
C) Many critics thought that it was only a fad, and would fade away quickly.
D) It tended to mimic some of the earlier trends with bebop.

Answer 1

It tended to mimic some of the earlier trends with bebop.

Question 2

What institution continued to be at the center of black life during the late twentieth century?

A) newspapers
B) music, particularly rap
C) churches
D) the NAACP

Answer 2

churches

Question 3

How was the cultural flowering of the 1980s and 1990s different from that in the 1960s and 1970s?

A) The art included more political flavor than before.
B) Literature was mainly aimed toward poetry in languages other than English.
C) Film began to be used as a political tool and art form.
D) The 1980s and 1990s included women, especially novelists, to a greater degree.

Answer 3

The 1980s and 1990s included women, especially novelists, to a greater degree.

Question 4

Regarding health around the turn of the twenty-first century,

A) African Americans continue to have lower infant mortality rates.
B) Life expectancy has declined slightly since the 1950s.
C) Although many African Americans are healthier, they often distrust the health-care system.
D) Skin cancer has become a leading problem among African Americans.

Question 5

What statements of Farrakhan's attracted national attention during and after the 1984 presidential campaign?

A) He said that blacks were actually superior to whites.
B) He said he hoped for a return to a male-dominated, segregated society, where blacks were subordinate.
C) He denounced rap music, and called it "the music of the devil."
D) He made anti-Semitic comments, stating that he thought Jewish people were at the heart of black problems in America.

Question 6

Which of the following is not true regarding African Americans and inner-city poverty?

A) Inner cities are generally cut off from the rest of society.
B) Inner cities have high rates of HIV infection and increased levels of violence and crime.
C) Poor black children are adversely affected, since they often live only with their mothers, who have limited access to jobs and education to help them move out of poverty.
D) Most African Americans have moved out of poverty in the inner cities.

Question 7

Supporters of Afrocentricism argue that

A) Europeans are actually the highest culture, and Africans should follow their lead.
B) America is a melting pot, bringing together many cultures, including Africans.
C) Africa should be only one of the main focal points of their study of history.
D) European civilization came from African origins, especially from Egypt.

Question 8

What is true about African Americans and HIV/AIDS?

A) Very few new cases of HIV/AIDS are from African Americans.
B) Some black men, as a part of the "Down Low" culture, were having unprotected homosexual sex and spreading the disease to their female partners.
C) African-American women rarely seek testing for HIV/AIDS.
D) Most African Americans who acquire HIV get the disease from homosexual sex.

Question 9

What two areas have seen increased migration to the United States since the 1960s?

A) the West Indies and Brazil
B) Africa and the West Indies
C) Brazil and Africa
D) Cuba and Ethiopia

Question 10

For what did Pope John Paul II apologize in 1993?

Question 11

How did Reginald Lewis become the wealthiest black man in America?

A) He was a music producer, for people like Michael Jackson.
B) He founded the computer company Microsoft.
C) He was a successful businessman.
D) He was a well-known actor in several films, under the name Denzel Washington.

Question 12

Why have some blacks criticized gangsta rap?

A) It is generally too loud, and damages the eardrums of children.
B) Its lyrics are often anti-women, violent, and offensive.
C) It advocates having blacks in subordinate positions to whites in society.
D) It is generally only copying other musicians' creative efforts.

Question 13

With what techniques is Grandmaster Flash credited in rap?

A) Flash was notorious for simply copying other rappers' styles.
B) Flash began the rap music tradition of using female backup singers.
C) He is credited with the technique of scratching and combining records on two turntables to produce a unique song.
D) He is generally credited with beginning the style known as "gangsta rap."

Question 14

What arguments have been made about racial statistics?

A) They should not ever be used as they are always discriminatory.
B) That without racial statistics, we might not know if we need programs to change discrimination.
C) That they stop miscegenation.
D) That they should only be used at the state level, not the national level.

Question 15

What types of goals did Farrakhan set for Nation of Islam members?

A) He pushed aggressively for civil and political rights.
B) He wanted women to be the social and political equals to men.
C) He pressed for equal constitutional rights for children.
D) He thought they should help themselves, by using gains they already had, using a rhetoric very similar to Booker T. Washington's.

Question 16

Which church has been at the forefront of gender reform in the black community?

A) the Nation of Islam
B) the Catholic Church
C) the AME Church
D) the Baptist church

Question 17

What was a culminating event of Farrakhan's leadership of the Nation of Islam?

A) his trip to Mecca
B) his denunciation of Jews
C) the Million Man March
D) his reaction to September 11

Question 18

What rap artist emerged to counter the images of women presented by gangsta rap artists?

Question 19

How did the economic situation for blacks change in the late twentieth century compared to the mid twentieth century?

A) More black women were forced into domestic and food service jobs.
B) Black family income increased dramatically.
C) Black wealth completely closed the income gap with whites.
D) Overall, economic opportunities for blacks dropped dramatically.

Question 20

Which of the following was not an achievement of the women's movement of the 1970s?

A) Women secured passage of a constitutional amendment prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.
B) Women gained access to affirmative action programs in higher education.
C) Women gained the right to a legal abortion.
D) Women pushed for equality in the workplace.

Question 21

Why did some African-American women become attracted to feminism?

A) They hated men, and hoped to be admitted into the military.
B) They wanted to reduce the birthrate in America.
C) They became increasingly disillusioned with black male attitudes toward them in the civil rights, black power, and black civil rights movements.
D) No black women supported feminism.

Question 22

Which of the following is true about homosexual African Americans in the 21st century?

A) Many African Americans are openly hostile to gays and lesbians, even to the point of being instrumental in prohibiting gay rights to marry in California.
B) Because African Americans have consistently been discriminated against themselves, they support the rights of others who have also been the victims of discrimination, including homosexuals.
C) Coretta Scott King and Jesse Jackson generally ignored gay rights in favor of working to end poverty.
D) Homosexual African Americans were very open about their sexuality.