research paper

The following are some suggested possible topics for your research essay. You may think of others, but your topic should have some relation to the readings or ideas that were discussed in this course. When you have decided on a given topic, or perhaps more than one that you are considering, write it down on the Discussions page. The list as of now:

1. Smart Houses
2. Robots
3. Nukes 
4. Good and/or bad use of the Internet
5. “The Harlem Renaissance”
6. Harlem
7. Langston Hughes
8. Any individual author
9. Traumatic experiences from childhood
10. The African American Experience in America
11. Slavery
12. Jim Crow
13. Racial Profiling 
14. Incarceration as “The New Slavery”
15. Unequal “Justice” System in the U.S.
16. “Birth of a Nation”
17. “The War on Drugs” 
18. Assassination of Black leaders
19. Reparations
20. Bail 
21. Economic inequality and how it intersects with racism 
22. Do immigrants take away jobs from others?
23. The Asian American Experience in America
24. Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
25. The Muslim Experience in America
26. Kitty Genovese and the “Bystander Effect”
27. The Immigrant Experience in America
28. History of contrasting attitudes towards immigrants
29. Immigration issues at the southern border 
30. The Native American Experience in America
31. Cancel culture and how to do deal with history
32. Women’s issues
33. the 19th amendment
34. The Suffragist Movement
35. The Role of Women in stories by Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Susan Glaspell
36. Women and depression 
37. Understanding of Mental Illness Then and Now
38. Lobotomies
39. Domestic Abuse 
40. Effects of the pandemic on any of the above (pick an aspect)