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Mutual Progress Cultural & Intellectual History Lesson 16 (Page 2 of 2) "Hold: Separate but Equal" is part of a series. This painting is a schematic representation of a slave ship blueprint, with two groups of figures trapped in the hold--one black, the other white. Bailey insists that "real revolution won't occur until poor whites as well as poor Blacks realize they are oppressed" (Fine, the Afro-American Artist, 272).
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The American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in 1968 on the promise of "red power." The leaders of AIM occupied Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay in 1969, claiming the site "by right of discovery."
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a) Juxtapose the decision of AIM to occupy Alcatraz Island "by right of discovery," against the claim posited by colonists who came to this country from Europe that the United States was and always would remain their possession "by right of discovery."
b) Discuss "right of discovery" either as irony or as double entendre. Write your response in the form below: |
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In the 1960s, the Institute of the Black World was formed in Atlanta to bring together a community of African American scholars, artists, and organizers to undertake a serious study of diaspora experience pertaining to Africans. In 1915 Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
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Today there are those who claim, by way of reverse discrimination, that Africans in the United States perpetuate separatism by holding on to all-black organizations . Discuss whether or not African American history and culture seems firmly entrenched within United States culture so that all-black organizations should be banned. Write your response in the form below:
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