Answer the following questions and email them to me before class on Tuesday.
Questions from Blues Peoples Reading Chapters 1-6
- What is a slave mentality?
- Why did “Negroes who were highest in the social and economic hierarchy become the most fanatic imitators of white society?”
- What does the term antebellum mean?
- How does Jones describe the difference between the role of West African women in society and African American women and what effect did this have on the blues?
- According to Jones why did Reconstruction fail?
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