AP African American Studies - Study Guides, Flashcards, AP-style Practice & Mock Exams

This unit provides crucial contextualization by exploring Africa's diverse ancient societies, from their varied landscapes and cosmologies to the complex political structures of powerful kingdoms.

• 1.0Unit Overview
• 1.1What Is African American Studies?
• 1.2The African Continent: A Varied Landscape
• 1.3Population Growth and Ethnolinguistic Diversity
• 1.4Africa's Ancient Societies
• 1.5The Sudanic Empires: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
• 1.6Learning Traditions
• 1.7Indigenous Cosmologies and Religious Syncretism
• 1.8Culture and Trade in Southern and East Africa
• 1.9West Central Africa: The Kingdom of Kongo
• 1.10Kinship and Political Leadership
• 1.11Global Africans
• 1.12Unit Exam

This unit analyzes the causation behind chattel slavery and the multifaceted forms of Black resistance, cultural creation, and community building in the face of dehumanization.

• 2.0Unit Overview
• 2.1African Explorers in the Americas
• 2.2Departure Zones in Africa and the Slave Trade to the United States
• 2.3Capture and the Impact of the Slave Trade on West African Societies
• 2.4African Resistance on Slave Ships and the Antislavery Movement
• 2.5Slave Auctions and the Domestic Slave Trade
• 2.6Labor, Culture, and Economy
• 2.7Slavery and American Law: Slave Codes and Landmark Cases
• 2.8The Social Construction of Race and the Reproduction of Status
• 2.9Creating African American Culture
• 2.10Black Pride, Identity, and the Question of Naming
• 2.11The Stono Rebellion and Fort Mose
• 2.12Legacies of the Haitian Revolution
• 2.13Resistance and Revolts in the United States
• 2.14Black Organizing in the North: Freedom, Women's Rights, and Education
• 2.15Maroon Societies and Autonomous Black Communities
• 2.16Diasporic Connections: Slavery and Freedom in Brazil
• 2.17African Americans in Indigenous Territory
• 2.18Debates About Emigration, Colonization, and Belonging in America
• 2.19Black Political Thought: Radical Resistance
• 2.20Race to the Promised Land: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
• 2.21Legacies of Resistance in African American Art and Photography
• 2.22Gender and Resistance in Slave Narratives
• 2.23The Civil War and Black Communities
• 2.24Freedom Days: Commemorating the Ongoing Struggle for Freedom
• 2.25Unit Exam

This unit analyzes continuity and change as African Americans navigated post-Reconstruction setbacks by creating new institutions, artistic movements, and intellectual traditions.

• 3.0Unit Overview
• 3.1The Reconstruction Amendments
• 3.2Social Life: Reuniting Black Families and the Freedmen’s Bureau
• 3.3Black Codes, Land, and Labor
• 3.4The Defeat of Reconstruction
• 3.5Disenfranchisement and Jim Crow Laws
• 3.6White Supremacist Violence and the Red Summer
• 3.7The Color Line and Double Consciousness in American Society
• 3.8Lifting as We Climb: Uplift Ideologies and Black Women’s Rights and Leadership
• 3.9Black Organizations and Institutions
• 3.10HBCUs, Black Greek Letter Organizations, and Black Education
• 3.11The New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance
• 3.12Photography and Social Change
• 3.13Envisioning Africa in Harlem Renaissance Poetry
• 3.14Symphony in Black: Black Performance in Music, Theater, and Film
• 3.15Black History Education and African American Studies
• 3.16The Great Migration
• 3.17Afro-Caribbean Migration
• 3.18The Universal Negro Improvement Association
• 3.19Unit Exam

This unit investigates the causation of diverse Black freedom movements, examining political organizing, cultural expression, intersectional thought, and visions for a liberated future.

• 4.0Unit Overview
• 4.1The Négritude and Negrismo Movements
• 4.2Anticolonialism and Black Political Thought
• 4.3African Americans and the Second World War: The Double V Campaign and the G.I. Bill
• 4.4Discrimination, Segregation, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
• 4.5Redlining and Housing Discrimination
• 4.6Major Civil Rights Organizations
• 4.7Black Women’s Leadership and Grassroots Organizing in the Civil Rights Movement
• 4.8The Arts, Music, and Politics of Freedom
• 4.9Black Religious Nationalism and the Black Power Movement
• 4.10The Black Arts Movement
• 4.11The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
• 4.12Black Is Beautiful and Afrocentricity
• 4.13The Black Feminist Movement, Womanism, and Intersectionality
• 4.14Interlocking Systems of Oppression
• 4.15Economic Growth and Black Political Representation
• 4.16Demographic and Religious Diversity in Contemporary Black Communities
• 4.17The Evolution of African American Music: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop
• 4.18Black Representation in Theater, TV, and Film
• 4.19African Americans in Sports: Activism and Athletics
• 4.20Black Contributions to Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 4.21Black Studies, Black Futures, and Afrofuturism
• 4.22Unit Exam