African American Transnationalism

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct65% picked this

   Emigrationist sentiment would not have been as strong among African Americans in the late nineteenth century had the promise of U.S. citizenship been fully

   Why this is right

   This sort of phrasing is testing Causal Difference-Makers. If we say "Sara would not have been as mad had Peter remembered to buy toilet paper", then to support that claim we need to have been told that "Peter forgot to buy TP. As a result, Sara got mad." Did the passage tell us that "Citizenship was not fully realized for black Americans. As a result, emigrationist sentiment grew?" Yes, in the 2nd paragraph, the 2nd sentence establishes that citizenship had not been genuinely resolved for black Americans, and the 3rd sentence says that "Because of this" emigrationist sentiment was a central issue.

   Skill tested: Inference · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

   65%
2. B

   Too Strong: generally4% picked this

   Scholars writing the history of diasporic communities generally do not discuss the forces that initially caused the scattering of

   We have no way to say what is true about 51% or more of scholars who write histories of diasporic communities. This passage only mentions some such scholars -- the black American historians in the 1870-1930 period.

   4%
3. C

   Too Strong: most18% picked this

   Most historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endeavored to make the histories of the nations about which they wrote seem

   This passage only talks about historians in the U.S. during that time period. We have no way to say whether 51% or more of historians globally during that time period were trying to over-glorify the history of the nations they wrote about.

   18%
4. D

   Too Strong2% picked this

   To be properly considered nationalist, a historical work must ignore the ways in which one nation's foreign policy

   Too Strong: to be X, it must be Y The author never says anything resembling a black-and-white rule for whether or not we can consider a historical work "nationalist". In the passage, we're only even talking about historians being nationalist or not, not historical works. And even for the historians there's no conditional rule language about how we can definitely tell if they're not nationalist.

   2%
5. E

   Out of Scope11% picked this

   A considerable number of early African American historians embraced nationalism and the inevitability of the

   Out of Scope: embraced Word Blender: inevitability of dominance In the 3rd paragraph, we aren't told of any African American historians who embraced the nationalist approach to historiography. We only hear of those who are "troubled by its implications". So we can't support "a considerable number" of them embraced it. This answer is also just making a hash out of words that were used. We were told that "the glorification of the nation-state as a historical force" was a dominant trend in mainstream historiography. We were told that historians were creating "new myths about the inevitability of nations". We never heard those ideas smushed together to make "the inevitability of the dominance of the nation-state".

   11%