1. What factors differentiate the history and experience of African Americans from those of Asian, Latino, and Native Americans?
2. Define African American Studies & enumerate its major educational and social objectives.
3. What is the role of culture in Black Studies and how does this make it different from other disciplines?
4. If the term Black is used to name or identify a race of people, should it be capitalized or lowercased?
5. If the history and experience of Black citizens of the United States were integrated fully and equitably into American textbooks, would that obviate the need for a separate discipline of African American Studies?
6. Study the histories/biographies of early Black women human-rights activists such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Ida Wells-Barnett, Maria W. Stewart. What were their social, political, economic philosophies beyond the abolition of slavery?
7. After watching the documentary Agents of Change, describe how Black Studies came to exist on San Francisco State & Cornell Universities? How were the coalitions of students similar on both campuses? How were they different? What were the role of faculty and administration in either supporting or opposing the creation of Black Studies on those campuses? Do you see any parallels between the Black Studies struggle and contemporary struggles in education and society today?
8. What were the differences that you read/reviewed on the differences between the struggle of Black Studies at HBCUs to their PWI counterparts.
