Below are the family questions (and answers) which I have accepted for the final exam. You'll note I did a bit of editing in some cases. Remember, these questions will be on the exam. On some of the questions which require longer answers, you do NOT have to give me the answer verbatim on the exam, as long as you are close enough in your own words.
FAMILY I (Sarah, Cam, Arsenio, Preston) earn 20 pts., plus one bonus point.
1. In his 1906 Niagara Movement speech, how did DuBois alter the last couple lines of the Star Spangled Banner, and what did he mean by it? (2)
ANSWER: Instead of: "home of the free and land of the brave," DuBois's words were: "home of the thief and land of the Slave," basically alluding to the theft of Native American lands and the enslavement of Africans.
2. Which short, early work of DuBois was framed and hung on the walls of many African American homes? (1)
ANSWER: "Credo"
3. In his essay entitled, "Negro Education," how did DuBois describe the proper relationship between liberal arts education and vocational training? (3)
ANSWER: A school system should carry the child as far as possible in its knowledge of the accumulated wisdom of the world and then when economic or physical reasons demand that this education stop, vocational training to prepare for one's life work should follow. He did not believe that the race should be trained simply to be servants and laborers. He said that anyone who sneered at "literary courses" and books, and believed that education should focus solely on teaching the techniques of modern industry was pitifully wrong.
4. In "The First Universal Races Congress," DuBois cites the three propositions that Gustav Spillers said that a fair interpretation of the scientific evidence would support in regard to the mental characteristics and capacities of races. In your own words, identify ONE of these propositions. (1)
ANSWER: Any ONE of the following:
(1) It is not legitimate to argue from differences in physical characteristics to differences in mental characteristics.
(2) Physical and mental characteristics of races are not permanent, nor are they modifiable only through long ages. On the contrary, they are capable of being profoundly modified in a few generations by changes in education, public sentiment, and environment generally.
(3) The status of a race at any particular time offers no index to its innate or inherited capacities.
FAMILY II: (Tramaine, Michael, Brianna) earn 20 pts., plus one bonus point.
1. What did DuBois say happened to him in terms of his identity as a result of the time he spent at Fisk? (1)
ANSWER: He said he "became a Negro."
2. In what DuBois called, "Slavery by another name," what were the MANIFEST nad LATENT functions of white support for the "Tuskegee Machine?" (2)
ANSWER: Manifest -- helping the race through charity efforts. Latent -- by funding such vocational education, it provided a steady stream of cheap labor.
3. In professing his agnosticism in a short piece entitled, "Immortality," what ancient philosopher does DuBois clearly seem to have in mind? (1)
ANSWER: Socrates
4. Near the end of his life, what country did DuBois emigrate to and what project did he plan to work on there? (2)
ANSWER: Ghana, and he planned to work on his "Encyclopedia Africana."
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