Historical background information for the play

I had several people email me asking about the "due dates" for the "new" assignments (not the research paper). It is important that you check for new postings daily and email work when you are finished. Of course email me with any questions and I will get back to you as soon as I can. If it makes it easier, let's say all of the week's assignments are due by Friday of that week (for example, for this week 4/13-4/17, everything is due by 4/17. No new assignments will be given on Fridays --that will be a day to catch up. This way if you are working on assignments for other classes or have other things going on at home you have some time.

Today's assignment (due by Friday 4/17): Either copy and paste and type or take pictures of handwritten answers---

Please read the packet with necessary background information for the play. Then, answer the following questions (you must restate them and highlight where you found the answer in the passage. The packet and questions are divided into the following sections):

Click here to access a copy of the packet: RITS background info packet 

Questions for the RITS background information packet

Section 1: "Harlem"

1.Why is Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem" considered important?

Section 2: "Lorraine Hansberry"

2.Why does the play A Raisin in the Sun have a "universal appeal" (4)?

3. Describe Lorraine Hansberry's early life.

4. Give examples of the some of the difficulties Hansberry had to endure in her adult life.

Section 3: "History of African Americans in Chicago"

5. What historical circumstances led to the "great migration" north by African Americans (16)?

6. What methods/techniques were used to maintain segregation and why?

7. How did the CHA try to, "ease the pressure in the overcrowded ghettos" and what were the effects (19)?

8. Give some examples of the "vibrant" black arts community in Chicago (19).

9. What were some of the "breakthroughs" African Americans were able to make in business?

10. Give some examples of the achievements made by African Americans in the 20th-21st centuries?

Section 4: "Afrocentrism"

11. What is Afrocentrism? Eurocentrism?

12. Who was Edward Wilmot Blyden and what did he do?

13.Why did Carter G. Woodson say that African Americans at that time suffered from a "miseducation" (22)?

14. Give some examples of the changes that are detailed in the section labeled "1960s and 1970s."

15. According to the text, "Afrocentrists argue that Afrocentricity is important for people of all ethnicities who want to understand African history and the African diaspora" (25). Explain.