TERM 1
True or False: According to Henry Louis Gates,
Jr. in Black Cool, anti-black racism is no longer
an issue for the vast majority of African
Americans
DEFINITION 1
False
TERM 2
Rebecca Walker discusses the various
manifestations of African traditions in
contemporary African American cultural
expression. Which activity did she take part in
as a youth that had connections to the Mende
people of Sierra Leon?
DEFINITION 2
Nightly baths with coconut oils and amber potions in
cleansing waters
TERM 3
Before publishing the story in Black Cool, why
was dream hampton hesitant to recount her
experience of almost being raped?
DEFINITION 3
She had survivor's guilt and didn't want other women to feel
that their rapes were in any way their fault andshe held deep
hatred for her brother and his friend Bo who did nothing
while she was being attacked
TERM 4
According to Mat Johnson in Black Cool, what
makes it difficult for many Black "geeks" to
express themselves publicly?
DEFINITION 4
African American identity was forged in an environment of
the external violence of white supremacy and therefore it
had to become rigid or it would be useless and those who
rejected the perceived identity of Blackness can be seen as
rejecting the whole of black worth itself
TERM 5
What type of art did Rachel Harper's father
create?
DEFINITION 5
Poet
