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AP African American Studies

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AP African American Studies

 

 Operational Course Framework, Project, and Exam Overview: 2024-2025

 

 

This page provides learning resources for students and teachers engaged in the study of African American history in secondary schools. The goal is to cover, uncover, and discover historical content connected to the AP African American Studies exam and the teaching of Black history/United States history at every grade level.

 

This project was launched in February 2023 in connection with the course Education 613: New Developments in Secondary School History and Political Science taught by Robert W. Maloy in the College of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

 

 READINGS AND COMMENTARIES

 

Slavery Caused the Civil War. Do America's Schoolchildren Know That Fact? National Education Policy Center (February 6, 2024)

 

 

We Reject the Whitewashing of AP African American Studies. Zinn Education Project (2023).

 

 

NCSS Statement on the African American History Strand of the New Florida Social Studies Standards (August 3, 2023)

 

Racial History and Black Lives Matter Learning Pathway (Building Democracy for All eBook)

 

external image 200px-Paperback_book_black_gal.svg.png A Worthy Piece of Work: The Ontold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools. Michael Hines, Beacon Press, 2024. Read a review of the book here.

 

 

AP AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES FRAMEWORK

 

UNIT 1: ORIGINS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

 

1.1 Introduction to African Studies

 

 

1.2. The African Continent: A Varied Landscape

 

 

 

1.3. Population Growth and Ethnolinguistic Diversity

 

 

 

1.4. Africa's Early Societies

 

 

 

1.5. The Sudanic Empires: Ghana, Mali, Songhai

 

 

 

1.6. Learning Traditions

 

 

1.7. Indigenous Cosmologies and Religious Syncretism

 

 

1.8. Culture and Trade in Southern and East Africa

 

 

 

 

1.9. West Central Africa: The Kingdom of Kongo

 

 

1.10. Kinship and Political Leadership

 

 

1.11. Global Africans

 

 

 

 

UNIT 2: FREEDOM, ENSLAVEMENT AND RESISTANCE

 

2.1 African Explorers in the Americas

 

 

2.2 Departure Zones in Africa and the Slave Trade to the United States

 

 

 

 

2.3 Capture and the Impact of the Slave Trade on West African Societies

 

 

2.4. African Resistance on Slave Ships and the Antislavery Movement

 

 

2.5 Slave Auctions and the Domestic Slave Trade

 

 

2.6 Labor, Culture, and Economy

 

 

 

2.7 Slavery and American Law: Slave Codes and Landmark Cases

 

 

 

 

 

2.8 The Social Construction of Race and the Reproduction of Status

 

 

2.9 Creating African American Culture

 

 

2.10 Black Pride, Identity, and Question of Naming

 

 

2.11 The Stono Rebellion and Fort Mose

 

 

2.12 Legacies of the Haitian Revolution

 

 

2.13 Resistance and Revolt in the United States

 

 

 

2.14 Black Organizations in the North: Freedom, Women's Rights and Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.15 Maroon Societies and Autonomous Black Communities

 

 

2.16 Diasporic Connections: Slavery and Freedom in Brazil

 

 

2.17 African Americans in Indigenous Territory

 

 

 

2.18 Debates about Emigration, Colonization, and Belonging in America

 

 

2.19 Black Political Thought: Radical Resistance

 

 

2.20 Race to the Promised Land: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad

 

 

 

 

2.21 Legacies of Resistance in African Art and Photography

 

 

2.22 Gender and Resistance in Slave Narratives

 

 

 

UNIT 3: THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM

 

3.1 The Reconstruction Amendments

 

 

 

W.E.B. Du Bois (circa 1907)

 

3.2 Social Life, Reuniting Black Families and the Freedman's Bureau

 

 

3.3 Black Codes, Land, and Labor

 

 

3.4 The Defeat of Reconstruction

 

 

3.5. Disenfranchisement and Jim Crow Laws

 

 

 

3.6 White Supremacist Violence and the Red Summer

 

 

 

3.7 The Color Line and Double Consciousness in American Society

 

 

 

3.8 Lifting as We Climb: Uplift Ideologies and Black Women's Rights and Leadership

 

 

 

 

 

3.9 Black Organizations and Institutions

 

 

 

 

 

3.10 HBCUs, Black Greek Letter Organizations, and Black Education

 

 

 

3.11 The New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance 

 

 

 

3.12 Photography and Social Change

 

 

3.13 Envisioning Africa in Harlem Renaissance Poetry

 

 

 

3.14 Symphony in Black: Black Performance in Music, Theatre, and Film

 

 

3.15 Black History Education and African American Studies

 

 

3.16 The Great Migration

 

 

3.17 Afro-Caribbean Migration

 

 

3.18 The Universal Negro Improvement Association

 

 

 

UNIT 4: MOVEMENTS AND DEBATES

 

4.1 The Negritude and Negrismo Movements

 

 

4.2 Anticolonialism and Black Political Thought

 

 

 

4.3 African Americans and the Second World War: The Double Victory Campaign and the GI Bill

 

 

 

 

 

4.4 Discrimination, Segregation, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

 

  

 

 

 

4.5 Redlining and Housing Segregation

 

 

 

4.6 Major Civil Rights Organizations

 

 

4.7 Black Women's Leadership and Grassroots Organizing in the Civil Rights Movement

 

 

4.8 The Arts, Music, and the Politics of Freedom

 

 

4.9 Black Religious Nationalism and the Black Power Movement

 

 

 

4.10 The Black Arts Movement

 

 

 

4.11 The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

 

 

4.12 Black is Beautiful and Afrocentricity

 

 

4.13 The Black Feminist Movement, Womanism and Intersectionality

 

 

4.14 Interlocking Systems of Oppression

 

 

4.15 Economic Growth and Black Political Representation

 

 

 

4.16 Demographic and Religious Diversity in Contemporary Black Communities

 

 

 

4.17 Evolution of African American Music: From Spirtuals to Hip-Hop

 

 

 

4.18 Black Life in Theatre, TV and Film

 

 

 

4.19 African Americans and Sports

 

 

 

 

4.20 Science, Medicine, and Technology in Black Communities

 

 

 

 

4.21 Black Studies, Black Futures and Afrofuturism

 

 

 

 

Teaching and Learning Resources

 

 

 

 

NCSS Response to the Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies Course Release (February 23, 2023).

 

 

The Origins of Black History Month, Association for the Study of African American Life and History (2021)

 

 

Digital Choice Boards and Infographics (developed by Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust in ScholarWorks @ UMass)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Individuals Who Fought for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Should Have a National Holiday or Day of Recognition?

 

 

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Donald Yacovone, 2013

 

"America's Long Tradition of Rewriting Black History," Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The New York Times Sunday Opinion (February 19, 2023, pp. 6-7).

 

 

Levels of Integration of Multicultural Content, James A. Banks (2003)

 

 

Black Writers of the Founding Era

A comprehensive anthology ever published of Black writing from the turbulent decades surrounding the birth of the United States.

 

 

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