AP African American Studies
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Thursday, May 6, 2027
12 p.m. local time (afternoon session)
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Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora
- 1.1 - What Is African American Studies?
- 1.2 - The African Continent: A Varied Landscape
- 1.3 - Population Growth and Ethnolinguistic Diversity
- 1.4 - Africa’s Ancient Societies
- 1.5 - The Sudanic Empires: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
- 1.6 - Learning Traditions
- 1.7 - Indigenous Cosmologies and Religious Syncretism
- 1.8 - Cultural and Trade Networks in South and East Africa
- 1.9 - West Central Africa: The Kingdom of Kongo
- 1.10 - Kinship and Political Leadership
- 1.11 - Global Africans
Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
- 2.1 - African Explorers in the Americas
- 2.2 - Departure Zones in Africa and the Slave Trade to the United States
- 2.3 - Capture and the Impact of the Slave Trade on West African Societies
- 2.4 - African Resistance on Slave Ships and the Antislavery Movement
- 2.5 - Slave Auctions and the Domestic Slave Trade
- 2.6 - Labor, Culture, and Economy
- 2.7 - Slavery and American Law: Slave Codes and Landmark Cases
- 2.8 - The Social Construction of Race and the Reproduction of Status
- 2.9 - Creating African American Culture
- 2.10 - Black Pride, Identity, and the Question of Naming
- 2.11 - The Stono Rebellion and Fort Mose
- 2.12 - Legacies of the Haitian Revolution
- 2.13 - Resistance and Revolts in the United States
- 2.14 - Black Organizing in the North: Freedom, Women's Rights, and Education
- 2.15 - Maroon Societies and Autonomous Black Communities
- 2.16 - Diasporic Connections: Slavery and Freedom in Brazil
- 2.17 - African Americans in Indigenous Territory
- 2.18 - Debates About Emigration, Colonization, and Belonging in America
- 2.19 - Black Political Thought: Radical Resistance
- 2.20 - Race to the Promised Land: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
- 2.21 - Legacies of Resistance in African American Art and Photography
- 2.22 - Gender and Resistance in Slave Narratives
- 2.23 - The Civil War and Black Communities
- 2.24 - Freedom Days: Commemorating the Ongoing Struggle for Freedom
Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom
- 3.1 - The Reconstruction Amendments
- 3.2 - Social Life: Reuniting Black Families and the Freedmen's Bureau
- 3.3 - Black Codes, Land, and Labor
- 3.4 - The Defeat of Reconstruction
- 3.5 - Disenfranchisement and Jim Crow Laws
- 3.6 - White Supremacist Violence and the Red Summer
- 3.7 - The Color Line and Double Consciousness in American Society
- 3.8 - Lifting as We Climb: Uplift Ideologies and Black Women's Rights and Leadership
- 3.9 - Black Organizations and Institutions
- 3.10 - HBCUs, Black Greek Letter Organizations, and Black Education
- 3.11 - The New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance
- 3.12 - Photography and Social Change
- 3.13 - Envisioning Africa in Harlem Renaissance Poetry
- 3.14 - Symphony in Black: Black Performance in Music, Theater, and Film
- 3.15 - Black History Education and African American Studies
- 3.16 - The Great Migration
- 3.17 - Afro-Caribbean Migration
- 3.18 - The Universal Negro Improvement Association
Unit 4: Movements and Debates
- 4.1 - The Négritude and Negrismo Movements
- 4.2 - Anticolonialism and Black Political Thought
- 4.3 - African Americans and the Second World War: The Double V Campaign and the G.I. Bill
- 4.4 - Discrimination, Segregation, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
- 4.5 - Redlining and Housing Discrimination
- 4.6 - Major Civil Rights Organizations
- 4.7 - Black Women's Leadership and Grassroots Organizing in the Civil Rights Movement
- 4.8 - The Arts, Music, and Politics of Freedom
- 4.9 - Black Religious Nationalism and the Black Power Movement
- 4.10 - The Black Arts Movement
- 4.11 - The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
- 4.12 - Black Is Beautiful and Afrocentricity
- 4.13 - The Black Feminist Movement, Womanism, and Intersectionality
- 4.14 - Interlocking Systems of Oppression
- 4.15 - Economic Growth and Black Political Representation
- 4.16 - Demographic and Religious Diversity in Contemporary Black Communities
- 4.17 - The Evolution of African American Music: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop
- 4.18 - Black Life in Theater, TV, and Film
- 4.19 - African Americans and Sports
- 4.20 - Science, Medicine, and Technology in Black Communities
- 4.21 - Black Studies, Black Futures, and Afrofuturism