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

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/schisholm-2.html (Links to an external site.)

“Keep Hope Alive”

Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign

Excerpts from The African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop

http://www.centerformaat.com/files/African_Origin_of_Civilization_Complete.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Excerpts from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

http://chateaunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Africa-Must-Unite-Kwame-Nkrumah.pdf (Links to an external site.)

The New Jim Crow (excerpts)

According to the syllabus: Your paper will be evaluated on these criteria:

1. Your ability to articulate a strong argument
2. The clarity of your prose
3. The quality of your sources and how you use them to support your arguments
4. Your organization and writing (do you use proper grammar? Is everything spelled correctly? Does your paper flow well?)
5. 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?)