A research proposal and a research paper for a African American studies course. The research proposal and research paper should be on two separate documents.
The research proposal needs 500-750 words describing what you’d like to explore in the research paper.
The research paper needs to be in MLA format. Minimum of 1750 words. You must cite multiple sources from reliable articles.
The research paper needs to be analyzing stuff covered in the following modules, and focus on some aspect of African American intellectual history.
The modules of this course are: Introduction & Slavery & Abolitionism
Black Women Leading the Cause of Abolition
Reconstruction and the Aftermath of Slavery
Women’s Activism and the Dawn of Segregation
The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance and World War
Marcus Garvey
The New Deal and World War II
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction
Contemporary African American Thought
African American’s Road to the White House
The textbook for this course is
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voice of resistence, reform and renewal, an African American Anthology
Here are the titles of some of the readings of this course, most are from the textbook I think. I suggest you google each topics and read them, I think many of them have PDFs online.
David Walker’s Appeal
The Statement of Nat Turner
Let Your Motto Be Resistance
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Maria W. Stewart: America’s First Black Woman Political Writer” From Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions
“Maria W. Stewart and the Rhetoric of Black Preaching” From Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions
Literary Societies” From Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions
“The Hidden History of Anna Murray Douglass”
What the Black Man Wants
Henry McNeal Turner
Booker T. and the Politics of Accommodation
Excerpts from Up From Slavery
“William Edward Burghardt Du Bois”
The Niagara Movement
A Voice from the South
The National Association of Colored Women
12 Things the Negro Must Do For Himself” -Nannie Helen Burroughs
What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S
Black Conflict Over WWI
The Philosophies and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
Breaking the Bars to Brotherhood
Charles Hamilton Houston and the War Effort
The Miseducation of the Negro
Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson
Roy Wilkins and the NAACP
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolence
SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement
The Special Plight and the Role of Black Women
Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X and Revolutionary
“Women in Prison”
“The Anita Hill Controversy”
“Race Matters”
“Afrocentricity”
Shirley Chisholm Speech at Howard University 1969
“Keep Hope Alive”
Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign
Excerpts from The African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop
Excerpts from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
The New Jim Crow (excerpts)
According to the syllabus: Your paper will be evaluated on these criteria:
- Your ability to articulate a strong argument
- The clarity of your prose
- The quality of your sources and how you use them to support your arguments
- Your organization and writing (do you use proper grammar? Is everything spelled correctly? Does your paper flow well?)
- The quantity/quality of your citations. (i.e. in a 10 page paper do you only cite two sources? Is the majority of your paper simply direct quotes from your sources?)
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