Humanities: Exploring Language and Culture
Study Guide: Cumulative Exam
1. Various Latino Groups in Latin America and the Caribbean
2. The Diaspora: Slave Voyages (www.slavevoyages.org)
Four major regions of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (British Caribbean, etc.)
Four areas in Africa which had the greatest number of embarkations
3. How did the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade affect the current day racial/ethnic makeup of Latin America and the Caribbean?
4. Haiti and the Domincan Republic: An Island Divided
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU3TWRKFtTA)
Venn Diagram
Rafael Trujillo
Spanish and French rule
Present Day
Haitian French Creole and Dominican Spanish
Articles
Study Guide: Cumulative Exam
1. Various Latino Groups in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Black
- White
- Native American
- Mulatto
- Zambo
- Mestizo
- Pardo (Afro-Mestizo/Tri-racial)
- Latino or Hispanic?
2. The Diaspora: Slave Voyages (www.slavevoyages.org)
Four major regions of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (British Caribbean, etc.)
- · name at least one country in each region
- · region that had more than 1 million slaves disembarking
- · which area of the world had the greatest number of slaves?
- · which area had the fewest?
- · the hundred year period that had the greatest movements of slaves across the Atlantic
Four areas in Africa which had the greatest number of embarkations
3. How did the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade affect the current day racial/ethnic makeup of Latin America and the Caribbean?
4. Haiti and the Domincan Republic: An Island Divided
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU3TWRKFtTA)
Venn Diagram
- know at least 5 differences between the two countries
- know at least three similarities between the two countries
Rafael Trujillo
- What is the significance of being able to pronounce the word “perejil”?
- The Massacre del Perejil
- The Blood River
- Ethnic and racial identities (African descent / Indio – Africa and Spain)
Spanish and French rule
- what was the original name of the island?
- who ruled the island, when did their reign end (year) and how did it end?
- which colony was the wealthiest and which country colonized it? What crops assisted in helping to gain such wealth?
- Haitian Revolution (Toussaint L’Ouverture)
Present Day
- The importance of Article 18 of the 2010 Constitution of the Dominican Republic
- What is the current status of this Article as of May 2014
- What U.S. issue has similarities to the Haiti/D.R. problem? Explain.
- What event occurred in Haiti which brought the island together, if only for a moment?
Haitian French Creole and Dominican Spanish
- Haitian French Creole phrases: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anveusFJybA
- Haitian French Creole (Animals): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJBphRNfsC8
- Dominican Spanish phrases (1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjXQ69hm2iQ
- Dominican Spanish phrases (2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hb-b2D8NiE
Articles
- A Divided Island: Haiti and the Dominican Republic http://www.oneworldeducation.org/divided-island-haiti-and-dominican-republic
- vocabulary words from the reading
- Haiti and the Dominican Republic: One island, two worlds