PT145.S3.P4.Q22

PrepTest 145 - Section 3 - Passage 4 - Question 22

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In contrast to the mainstream of U.S. historiography during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American historians of the period, such as George Washington Williams and W. E. B. DuBois, adopted a transnational perspective. ████ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ████████ ███ ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ███ █████████ ██ █████ ██ ██ ███████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████ ████ ██ ██ ███████ █████████

Williams and DuBois perspective · Transnational view in order to represent African American history
This was in contrast to mainstream U.S. historiography.
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Historical context · Citizenship for African Americans was not resolved yet, which led some to advocate emigrating to another country
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Historical context · Mainstream historiography rooted in nationalism
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African American response to nationalism · Some argued that imperalism and colonialism was natural and distinct aspect of nationalism
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Main point · Early African American historians who took a transnational perspective were nationalist, too
This nationalism is based on a diasporic community (spread across different countries). These historians wrote the history of a people with a collective identity, who saw themselves as part "nation" without a homeland or with Africa as home.
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22.

Which one of the following ██ ████ ████████ █████████ ██ ███ ████████

a

Emigrationist sentiment would ███ ████ ████ ██ ██████ █████ ███████ █████████ ██ ███ ████ ██████████ ███████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ███████████ ████ █████ ████████ ███ ███████ █████████ ██ ████ █████

Supported. The failure of the U.S. to grant African Americans citizenship is cited as one of the reasons some African Americans favored emigration (moving to another country).

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b

Scholars writing the ███████ ██ █████████ ███████████ █████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ ██████ ████ █████████ ██████ ███ ██████████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ █████ ████████████

Not supported. We have no evidence that scholars of diasporic communities typically don’t discuss what caused a diaspora.

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c

Most historians of ███ ████ ██████████ ███ █████ █████████ █████████ ██████████ ██ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ █████ ████ █████ ████ ████ ████████ ████ ████ ████████ █████

We don’t know that “most” historians sought to portray histories as more glorious than they actually were. We know that some African American historians sought to make a glorious African past, but we have no reason to think “most” historians (including non-African American historians) did something similar.

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d

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Not supported. The author doesn’t suggest that a nationalist work needs to ignore the effects of foreign policy decisions.

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e

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Although the author characterizes many early African American historians’ perspectives as nationalist, this doesn’t imply that those historians viewed the dominance of the nation-state as inevitable. The nationalist aspects of their perspectives, as discussed in the last paragraph, relate to the creation of a common identity based on a common culture. They do not relate to the power of a nation-state.

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