Central ideas and details questions will look like this:
CENTRAL IDEAS AND DETAILS: EXAMPLE
Many intellectual histories of the Black Power movement
of the 1960s and 1970s rely heavily on essays and other
explicitly ideological works as primary sources, a
tendency that can overrepresent the perspectives of a
small number of thinkers, most of whom were male.
Historian Ashley D. Farmer has shown that expanding the
array of primary sources to encompass more types of
print material-including political cartoons,
advertisements, and artwork-leads to a much better
understanding of the movement and the crucial and
diverse roles that Black women played in shaping it.
Which choice best describes the main idea of the text?