Thursday, September 6, 2012

Homework Questions

Answer the following questions and email them to me before class on Tuesday.

Questions from Blues Peoples Reading Chapters 1-6
  1. What is a slave mentality? 
  2. Why did “Negroes who were highest in the social and economic hierarchy become the most fanatic imitators of white society?” 
  3. What does the term antebellum mean? 
  4. 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? 
  5. According to Jones why did Reconstruction fail? 

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