Exam Review

For the upcoming exam, you should be familiar with, and able to discuss the following terms:

Passing

Double-Consciousness

Modernism

Urban Realism

Sexual Racism

Harlem Renaissance

The Veil

Metaphor of “the gate”

Conventions of the Slave Narrative: “I Moment”; Episodes; Escape; Conversion Narrative; Acquisition of Literacy; Abolitionism

Miscegenation

Patriarchy

Hierarchy

Amanuensis

Authenticating Letter

You should also be able to recall some of the important narratives and figures we have discussed this semester. For instance, you should be able to answer such questions as the following:

1. She occupied a crawlspace in her grandmother's home for seven years in order to be close to her children.

2. He was a poet of the Harlem Renaissance who emphasized the importance of being a 'black poet'; he discovered in jazz music the spirit of African American culture. 

3. His Appeal raised the ire of white power structures in the South and his outspokenness on race matters furthered the cause of Abolition in the nineteenth century.

4. He was among the very first former slaves to publish his memoirs; before he achieved freedom he was dubbed Gustavus Vassa.

5. She was a formidable presence at over six feet tall, an electrifying stump speaker who renamed herself after the purpose she felt she had to spread God's word.

Our exam date (which also appears on your syllabus) is scheduled for December 14, 7:30-9:30 a.m.