ESSAY

CHOOSE A TOPIC:

Mexican Immigration

History and current Affirmative Action

Racial Inequalities in Education

Race Segregation in Prisons

Sport Logos and Racism

Islamophobia

Palestine, Israel, and America

Unauthorized Immigration (undocumented immigration)

Racial Inequalities within the Voting System

Racial Inequalities within the Political System

Racism: Different in Brazil and Cuba than the US?

Racism in the Health Care System

How Nazis Influenced Public Opinion about Jews

Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System

Structural Racism: Laws and Social Norms

The Problems with Color Blind Ideology

White privilege

CRITERIA FOR RESEARCH PAPER

1. Choose a topic for your research paper from the list that has been provided 

2. Papers must be a MINIMUM of ten pages long (8 full pages of text, one page for references and one cover page). No headings should be repeated on the eight pages of text - they belong on the cover page. Write a minimum of eight pages of text on that research topic. 

3. Include a minimum of eight scholarly references (social science journals, law books; and/or websites that are sponsored by academics and/or professionals) and include a bibliography at the end of the paper using ASA formatting. One of those references can be from ONE of our texts; the other references must come from separate academic journal articles NOT news articles or random websites.

4. Do not include Wikipedia or other encyclopedia/dictionary usages among the ten references.

5. USE ASA WRITING STYLE ONLY; AN ASA FORMATTING GUIDE 

6. Double-Space, use 12 point normal font (Times New Roman only) and margins no greater than 1.25” on all sides. DO NOT MANIPULATE FONTS AND/OR FORMATTING TO SATISFY THE LENGTH CRITERIA (SHORT PAPERS WILL NOT EARN CREDIT). DO NOT INCLUDE LONG QUOTES OVER FORTY WORDS; LIMIT SHORT QUOTES TO ONLY 3-4