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What is the compilation of Isidore of Seville's work called?
Etymologies
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What was "Black by definition"?
Moors
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What are Afro-Spaniards?
Spanish nationals of West/Central African descent
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Where do Afro-Spaniards come from?
Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal
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Which Spanish colony do Afro-Spaniards reside?
Equatorial Guinea
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How many Afro-Spaniards currently live in Spain?
an estimated 683,000
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In 2001 how many black people lived in the UK?
over a million black
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What percentage of the population was "Black Caribbean"?
1%
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What percentage of the population was "Black African"?
0.8%
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What percentage of the population was "Black other"?
0.2%
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When did Britain encourage immigration of workers?
after World War II
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When did African states become independent?
1960s
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Who offered many Africans a chance to study in their country?
Soviet Union
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How many students moved from Africa to Russia?
about 400,000
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Why did students move to Russia?
to pursue higher studies
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Migration to Russia continued into many countries where?
Eastern bloc.
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Where did the Ottoman slave trade flourish?
in the Balkans
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What town had it's own black community?
Ulcinj
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What country is Ulcinj in?
Montenegro
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How many black people lived in Ulcinj until 1878?
100
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How many blacks served in the Ottoman Army during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18?
an estimated 30,000
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Who has been referred to as "black people"?
Indigenous Australians
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What was the original term related to?
skin colour
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Since when have Indigenous Australians been referred to as black?
since the early days of European settlement
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What does the term relate to know in reference to Australians?
to indicate Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ancestry
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What was established to control the Indigenous Australians?
Aboriginal Protection Boards
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What did the Aboriginal Protection Boards control?
where they lived, their employment, marriage, education and included the power to separate children from their parents.
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Were Aborigines allowed to vote?
Aborigines were not allowed to vote
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Who reported how the Aborigines were treated?
Sir Baldwin Spencer
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What year was his report from?
1913
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Which race was growing faster after the First World War?
mixed-race people
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What did people fear in 1930?
"half-caste menace"
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What did this menace undermine?
the White Australia ideal
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Who noted this particular fear?
Dr. Cecil Cook
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Who is Dr. Cecil Cook?
the Northern Territory Protector of Natives,
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Who did the government want raised as white?
"half-caste" individuals
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What was the goal of removing mixed races from their homes?
Eliminate the full-blood and permit the white admixture to half-castes and eventually the race will become white"
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What were the mixed race individuals kept from doing?
speaking their native language and practising traditional customs
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What was this process referred to?
the Stolen Generation
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When did human rights for Aboriginal people begin to improve?
The second half of the 20th century
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What year was constitutional discrimination ended?
1967
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What else was included in the 1967 referendum?
to include Aborigines in the national census.
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What term was embraced during this period?
"black"
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Who said the Aboriginal people started to embrace their ancestry?
Activist Bob Maza
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Who wrote "Living Black?
Kevin Gilbert
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What year was Gilbert awarded for his efforts?
1978
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What was Living Black about?
a collection of Aboriginal people's stories
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What award did Gilbert refuse in 1998?
the Human Rights Award for Literature
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What was the award in 1998 for?
Inside Black Australia
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What did the improvements in quality of life increase?
people self-identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
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What has the reappropriation of the word "black" done?
resulted in its widespread use in mainstream Australian culture,
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In what year were there several cases that helped to redefine Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander?
2012
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What well known boxer was criticized for question someone's blackness?
Anthony Mundine
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Which Journalist was sued for publishing discriminatory comments?
Andrew Bolt
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Who described slaves as negars?
John Rolfe
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Where was John Rolfe?
Colonial America
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Where were slaves shipped to from West Africa?
Virginia colony
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What was the name of the African burial ground in New York City?
"Begraafplaats van de Neger"
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What does "Begraafplaats van de Neger" mean?
Cemetery of the Negro
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When did "nigger" become a pejorative word?
By the 1900s
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What term replaced negro as mainstream?
colored
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What term followed "negro" and "colored"?
"black"
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What movement sprouted this change in rhetoric?
the African-American Civil rights movement
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Who led the Civil Rights movement?
Reverend Martin Luther King
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How did black people identify in early America?
by their specific ethnic group
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What was not acknowledged by English colonists?
individual ethnic affiliations
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How vast was the backgrounds of the captives?
West African coastline stretching from Senegal to Angola and in some cases from the south-east coast
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How was the new African American identity defined?
This new identity was based on provenance and slave status
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Which colonists recorded more complete identities of the West Africans?
French and Spanish colonists
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What type of skin pigment does "Black" refer to?
the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors
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In the United States the term "black people" is an indicator for?
socially based racial classification related to being African American,
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Where does the US base family history of African Americans from?
a family history associated with institutionalized slavery.
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How are people defined as "black" or "white"?
they fulfill the social criteria
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Why did the use of "African" become an issue?
the majority of black people in the United States were native-born
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Why did blacks fear to identify as African?
would be a hindrance to their fight for full citizenship in the US.
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What year did Black leaders call for this change in language?
1835,
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What group decided to keep the "African" in their name?
the African Methodist Episcopal Church
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What terms did African Americans use instead?
"Negro" or "colored"
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Who argued for Americans to use the term "African American"?
Jesse Jackson
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What year did Jesse Jackson make this argument?
1988
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Why did Jackson want this term to be used?
it had a historical cultural base and was a construction similar to terms used by European descendants
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Who also argued for the term "African American"?
African-American
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Why did some argue that "black" was the better term?
because "African" suggests foreignness
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How does the U.S. census define "black" Americans?
having origins in any of the black (sub-Saharan) racial groups of Africa
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What classification are given?
socio-political constructs
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What percentage of African Americans have European ancestry?
17–18%
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What is the Census definition not based on?
scientific or anthropological
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What did the "one-drop" rule do?
classify as black a person of any known African ancestry
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When was the "one-drop" rule put into place?
early 20th century.
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When was racial definition more flexible?
18th and 19th centuries
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What war changed the way the United States looked at race?
the American Civil War
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When did Virginia adopt The Principle of Partus Sequitur Ventrem?
1662
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How is blackness described in the US?
the degree to which one associates themselves with mainstream African-American culture, politics, and values.
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What defines "blackness"?
political orientation, culture and behavior
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What is the opposite of "blackness"?
"acting white"
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How does one "act white"?
black Americans are said to behave with assumed characteristics of stereotypical white Americans
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In what regards can one "act white"?
with regard to fashion, dialect, taste in music,
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Who described Bill Clinton as "Black"?
Toni Morrison
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Who was offended by Clinton being referred to as black?
Christopher Hitchens
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Who is Toni Morrison?
Nobel Prize-winning novelist
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