Make sure you are prepared to answer each questions thoroughly, providing evidence to support your answer, demonstrating both depth and breath of knowledge. Please understand a couple sentence response WILL NOT be sufficient.

1. Why and how did life change for upper and middle-class Blacks in the late 1980s? What problems did many poor Blacks continue to face?
2. What were the various developments in Black culture, the arts, and intellectual leanings during the 1980s and 1990s? Who were some of the major figures?
3. Discuss the issue of Afrocentricity. What supporting and opposing arguments to this philosophy have Blacks advanced? How does this debate reveal the changing nature of the black community?