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Final Project

100 pts

Choose an appropriate topic to research, analyze, and discuss as a group that focuses on developing a greater understanding of either an historical or cultural event or experience that has impacted black life socially, culturally, economically, and/or psychologically. Students’ research should explore in greater depth and analysis events or topics discussed in class or in written texts. Use the following criteria to conduct your group research:

1) Choose a broad topic

2) Identify a problem associated with your topic

3) Raise a question to explore from the identified problem

4) Make an hypothesis that directly addresses the question raised from the identified problem

5) Analyze the assumptions made within your stated hypothesis

6) Divide areas of research into subtopics among group members to explore in greater details aspects of your hypothesis that will be developed into a thoughtful argument

7) Discuss the conclusions drawn from addressing the assumptions made in your research with the empirical data, (i.e., evidence) provided from your research

8) Five sources each from either primary, secondary sources, or peer reviewed scholarly journals must be used by each student contributing to the project

9) Although this is a collaborative effort, each student is responsible for his/her own research and reference page

10) APA format is required

11) Research should be presented in Power Point or Prezi format and groups should present their slides collectively with each participant identifying his/her area of research within the contributing subtopics related to the project

12) The topic should be properly introduced, the problem clearly identified, as well as the question raised concerning your problem and the hypothesis to be explored that forms the basis of your research

13) Conclusions should be drawn from addressing the initial assumptions made about your research and the eventual outcomes received that were either supported or rejected by the evidence retrieved by your research

14) There should be an average of four to five slides contributed per student in addition to a reference page

Example

Topic: Racism in America

Problem: Racism persists in America despite slavery having ended 150 years ago

Question: How does America’s colonial past effect race relations today?

Hypothesis: The institutionalization of slavery within the colonies was due in part to Eurocentric thinking, the desire for profits, an existent slave trade in Africa, and a newly conquered vast and undeveloped land; these factors contributed to the development of a stratified society built on a color caste system that was never fully eradicated and continues to effect black Americans today

Subtopics: Could include exploring how racism and institutionalized slavery was created in America, making connections between America’s historical past and racism embedded within the nation’s institutions, examining current racial disparities within various social institutions, analyzing the effectiveness of civil rights’ legislation in addressing racial disparities, exploring the treatment of blacks in America as well as the perception of how they feel they are treated, and making a comparison between white perceptions of racism and actual outcomes and disparities between the races

Conclusion: Compare the results of your collective research against your hypothesis. Does the evidence gathered support or reject the assumptions made by your hypothesis? Discuss why the research conducted was valid in proving or disproving your stated hypothesis. Were there any assumptions or evidence that may have been overlooked that would have affected your outcomes and produced different results?

Potential Topics

Discuss with the professor your chosen topic as it is subject to approval:

Racism, Africanisms – spirituals, the Black church, music, folklore, language, food, dance, etc., Priests, Conjurers, Medicine Men, Black History, West Africa, West African Empires, the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes, Tribal Life and Identity, Acculturation, Assimilation, Privilege, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Christianity, Islam, Colonialism, Imperialism, Hegemony, the Slave Trade, the Creation of Racism, Eurocentrism, Marriage, Anti-Miscegenation, Citizenship, the Constitution, Racial Classification, the Color Caste System, Black Codes, Colonial Life, the Age of Enlightenment, Egalitarianism, the Struggle for Equality, the Revolutionary War, Manumission, the Free Black Caste, the Plantation System, Regional Slavery, the Black Family, the Second Awakening, the Role of the Church in Slavery, Abolitionism, the Underground Railroad, Black Newspapers, Black Schools, Resistance, Slave Revolts, the American Colonization Society, Black Women, Black Men, the Civil War, Emancipation, the Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth, Freedom, 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, the Freedman’s Bureau, 40 Acres and a Mule, Voting Rights, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Plantation Myth, Racial Segregation, Blackface, Racial Stereotypes, Appropriation, Reparations, Hate Groups, White Supremacy, the Progressive Movement or Populism, Plessy vs Ferguson, Separate but Equal, Pig Laws, Grandfather Clauses and Vagrancy Laws, Sharecropping, Tenant Farming, Convict Leasing, Peonage, Lynching, the Atlanta Compromise, African American Identity, Afrocentrism, Sankofa, Black History Week, the American Negro Academy, the Great Migration, Race Riots, the Color-line, Black Poverty, African American Patriots, Liberation Movements, WWI, Jazz, the Blues, Integration, Separatism, types of Segregation, Structural and Institutional Racism, Pan-Africanism, the New Negro, Black Scholars and Intellectuals, the Niagara Movement, Black Nationalism, the NAACP, Sports, Self-Reliance and the Rise of Black Professionals, the Harlem Renaissance, Cultural Pluralism, Modernism, Social Realism, Black Aesthetics, the Great Depression, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Black Artists and Literary Writers, WWII, Existentialism, Education, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party, the Black Cultural Arts Movement, the Prison Industrial Complex, the School to Prison Pipeline, two Black Americas, Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, Race Neutral Policies, Colorblind Society