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AP African American Studies: Black Studies, Black Futures, and Full Course Review — Drill 30

Drill 30 · Multiple Choice · Unit 4: Movements and Debates

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AP African American Studies: Black Studies, Black Futures, and Full Course Review — Drill 30 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 4: Movements and Debates. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

Practice AP African American Studies questions on the origins of Black Studies as a discipline, Afrofuturism, and the four major course themes across all four units. These AP African American Studies practice questions are ideal for full-course AP exam prep, connecting the African diaspora to contemporary Black futures.

Passage

“Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. It asks: what does it mean to be Black in the future, and what can the past tell us about how to get there? It reclaims the right of Black people to imagine, design, and inhabit worlds not yet built — drawing on African diasporic traditions, speculative fiction, and political possibility to envision liberation beyond the present.”

— Adapted from scholarly description of Afrofuturism, 2010s

Questions in This Drill

  1. Which of the following best states the central claim of the passage about Afrofuturism?
  2. The passage describes Afrofuturism as “reclaiming the right of Black people to imagine, design, and inhabit worlds not yet built” in response to a history that denied Black futures. Which AP African American Studies course theme does this framing most directly reflect?
  3. The origins of Black Studies as an academic discipline in the late 1960s are best understood as similar to the founding of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) by Carter G. Woodson in 1915 in that both
  4. A student argues: “The four units of AP African American Studies together demonstrate that the African diaspora is not simply a historical event but an ongoing process that continues to shape Black identity and community.” Which of the following pieces of evidence BEST supports this argument?
  5. Which of the following best illustrates the course theme of Resistance and Resilience across all four units of AP African American Studies?