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What is the term for a pregnant slave?
umm walad
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What does umm walad mean?
"mother of a child"
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Who was the ruler in Morocco?
Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur
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When did Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur rule?
from 1578 to 1608
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What ethnicity was his mother?
Fulani
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What Arabic term is still used for black people?
(Arabic: عبد‎,) (meaning "slave")
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Who still had the term "slave" used in reference to them?
sub-Saharan peoples
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When did the Arab apartheid intensify?
early 1991
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Who felt persecuted due to the apartheid?
non-Arabs of the Zaghawa tribe
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Where did these people live?
Sudan
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Who controlled the government?
Sudanese Arabs
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What was the government being accused of?
deftly manipulat(ing) Arab solidarity" to carry out policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
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Who accused the Arab government of practicing acts of racism?
George Ayittey
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Who executed the apartheid?
the Arab government
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Who was excluded?
blacks
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Where were they?
Sudan
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What is George Ayittey's profession?
economist
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Who was the Canadian Minister of Justice?
Irwin Cotler
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How did Alan Dershozitz describe the Sudan?
an example of a government that "actually deserve(s)" the appellation "apartheid."
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Who argeed with Dershowitz?
Irwin Cotler
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Where did Irwin Cotler live?
Canadian
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What did the colonization of South Africa result in?
many unions and marriages between European men and African women from various tribes
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What was a result of these marriages?
mixed-race children
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What class were Africans and Mixed Race children considered?
second-class
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Who was included in the Coloured group?
Bantu, Khoisan, and European descent
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What does apartheid mean?
a system of legal racial segregation
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What act determined what class a citizen belonged to?
the Population Registration Act of 1945
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What test was used to determine if someone was coloured or black?
pencil test
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How did the pencil test work?
A pencil was inserted into a person's hair to determine if the hair was kinky enough to hold the pencil
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Who administered the "Pencil Test"?
Minor officials
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Who was featured in the movie "Skin"?
Sandra Laing
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What year was the movie "Skin" made?
2008
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At was age was Sandra Laing expelled from school?
age 10
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What is Sandra Laing's ethnicity?
South African
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How many generations of European Ancestors does Sandra Laing have?
three
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Who was oppressed and discriminated against?
those classed as "Coloured"
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What era did this discrimination take place?
During the apartheid era
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Who were "Coloured" people above in the class system?
those classed as "Black"
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Where were the "black" areas?
large townships located away from the cities
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What did South Africa's Constitution Declare to be?
a "Non-racial democracy"
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What laws did they introduce to support blacks?
affirmative action policies
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Who does the term "black" people include?
"Africans", "Coloureds" and "Asians"
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Who makes the "Coloured" people feel "Not black enough"?
ANC (African National Congress)
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Who is favored more under the affirmative action policies?
"Africans
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Who declared Chinese South Africans as "Black People"?
the High Court in South Africa
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What year did this ruling happen?
2008
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Why was this classification made?
solely for the purposes of accessing affirmative action benefits
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What Chinese people did not qualify for benefits?
Chinese people who arrived in the country after the end of apartheid
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Why did some Chinese citizens qualify for benefits?
they were also "disadvantaged" by racial discrimination.
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What is another way "Coloureds" can be distinguished from "Blacks"?
language
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What languages are most common?
Afrikaans or English
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What are less common languages spoken?
Zulu or Xhosa
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What types of names do "coloureds" have?
European-sounding names
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What type of names do "blacks" have?
Bantu names
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How many sub-Saharan Black Africans were enslaved?
10 to 18 million
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In what time frame were these people enslaved?
between the advent of Islam in 650CE and the abolition of slavery in the Arabian Peninsula in the mid-20th century
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Who enslaved these people?
Arab slave traders
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Why were women slaves more popular?
for them to serve as concubines
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Who was assimilated into the Arab slave owner families?
The mixed-race children of female slaves and Arab owners
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How many people in Yemen have African lineage?
average of 38%
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How many people in Oman-Qatar have African lineage?
16%
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How many people in Saudi Arabia-United Arab Emirates have African lineage?
10%
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Genetic studies have found which gene in Arab communities?
African female-mediated gene
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Who is seeking minority status from the government?
African-Iraquis
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Where would they be represented if minority status is granted?
Parliament
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How are Africans classified in the Arabian Peninsula?
as Arab
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What types of communities have been reported in Iraq?
Distinctive and self-identified black communities
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Who gave information on how blacks were classified in the Arabian Peninsula?
Alamin M. Mazrui et al.
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How many East African and black people live in Israel?
About 150,000
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What percent of Israel's population is black?
just over 2%
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When did they migrate to Israel?
during the 1980s and 1990s
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Where did they migrate from?
Ethiopia.
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Where are most of the black converts from?
the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.
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How many non-jewish African immigrants live in Israel?
around 60,000
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What have these immigrants sought?
asylum
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Where are most of them from?
Sudan and Eritrea
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What languages do they speak?
Niger-Congo
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Where are the non jewish immigrants from?
southern Nuba Mountains
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When did the slave trade begin?
during the period of the Ottoman Empire
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Where were the slaves brought?
Antalya and Istanbul in present-day Turkey
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Where did former slaves go for work once freed?
İzmir area
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What year did they begin to migrate to Izmir?
1923
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Who are the Siddi?
an ethnic group inhabiting India and Pakistan
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Who did the Siddi descend from?
Bantu peoples from Southeast Africa
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What does the word "Siddi" derive from?
"Sayyid"
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Where does the term Sayyid come from?
the title borne by the captains of the Arab vessels that first brought Siddi settlers to the area
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When was the "black power" movement in Sindh?
1960s
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Who were the first inhabitants of Southeast Asia?
The Negritos
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Where do the Negritos reside currently?
Thailand, the Malay Archipelago, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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What does Negrito mean?
"little black people"
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What language does the term Negrito come from?
Spanish
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What term is interchangable with Negrito?
Semang
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What does the term "Moors" refer to?
Muslims
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What descent of Muslims does "Moors" refer to?
Arab or Berber descent
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In Medieval and early Modern Europe what ethnicity were lumped together?
Muslim Arabs, Berbers, Black Africans and Europeans
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Where did "Moors" migrate from?
North Africa or Iberia
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What kind of term is "Moors"?
derogatory
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Who claimed that Maurus was derived from the Greek mauron?
Isidore of Seville
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When was this claim made?
7th century,
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What does mauron mean?
black
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