TAKAKI: A DIFFERENT MIRROR [STUDY QUESTIONS]



TAKAKI: A DIFFERENT MIRROR [STUDY QUESTIONS]

CHAPTER 3 THE “GIDDY MULTITUDE”

1. HOW DID THE STATUS OF “INDENTURED SERVANTS” CHANGE?

2. WAS THIS CHANGE THE SAME FOR WHITES AS WELL AS BLACKS?

HOW DID IT DIFFER?

3. INITIALLY [PRIOR TO 1715], WHY DID THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA

WANT TO MINIMIZE THE NUMBER OF BLACKS IN THE COLONY?

4. DEFINE “GIDDY MULTITUDE”. WHO WERE THEY?

5. WHAT IMPACT DID NATHANIAL BACON HAVE ON AMERICAN HISTORY?

6. IN THE 17TH CENTURY, WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “DE FACTO” SALVERY AND “DE JURE” SLAVERY?

7. PLANTERS AND LANDLESS WHITES: THE LANDED ELITE [PLANTERS] IN 1705, CONTINUED TO VIEW THE WHITE LOWER CLASS AS A BOTHERSOME PROBLEM. HOW DID THE PLANTERS ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM?

8. EXPLAIN THE IDEOLOGY AND PRACTICES OF THOMAS JEFFERSON?

9. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE “FOREVER” CLAUSE?

CHAPTER 5. NO MORE PECK O’CORN

1. WAS SAMBO REAL?

2. WHAT RESTRICTIONS WERE PLACED UPON BLACKS IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY?

3. .WHY DID MARTIN DELANEY FEEL THAT THE OPPPRESSION OF BLACKS WAS ESSENTIALLY BASED UPON CASTE NOT CLASS?

WHAT SOLUTION DID HE PROPOSE TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM?

4. WHAT IS “DEBT PEONAGE?” HOW DID IT WORK?

5. WHAT DID BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MEAN WHEN HE SAID:

A) “CAST DOWN YOUR BUCKETS?”

B) “THE OPPORTUNITY TO EARN A DOLLAR IN A FACTORY JUST NOW IS WORTH INFINITELY MORE THAN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND A DOLLAR IN AN OPERA-HOUSE.”

C) “IN ALL THINGS THAT ARE PURELY SOCIAL WE CAN BE AS SEPARATE AS THE FINGERS, YET ONE AS THE HAND IN ALL THINGS ESSENTIAL TO MUTUAL PROGRESS.”

6. DESCRIBE THE SOCIAL CLIMATE FOR BLACKS IN THE DECADE THAT FOLLOWED THE 1896 SUPREME COURT RULING: Plessy v. Ferguson.

CHAPTER 13, TO THE PROMISED LAND: Blacks in the Urban North

1. DESCRIBE THE “PUSH-PULL” CHARACTERISTICS OF BLACK URBAN MIGRATION.

2. WHAT DOES TAKAKI MEAN BY THE EXPRESSION: “YEARNING FOR BLACKNESS?” EXPLAIN.

3. WHO WAS W.E.B. DUBOIS? WHAT DID HE ADVOCATE?

4. HOW DID THE UNION MOVEMENT AFFECT BLACKS?

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