AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Each student will write an 8 to 10-page research paper. You may select from the proposed research topics, Analyze a social movement, evaluate its use of nonviolent strategy and tactics, describe the power relationships, and evaluate its outcomes or expected outcomes. Please integrate material from lectures, readings, and class discussion in your paper when appropriate. Also, please cite sources and include a minimum of five sources not included in the readings and syllabus. Due on the last day of class. (1/3 of the grade) The Immigrant Rights Movement/The Immigrant Youth Movement/Deportations/Sanctuary The Minimum Wage or Anti-Wage Theft Campaigns The Anti-Sweatshop Movement The United Farm Workers Movement The Car Wash Organizing Campaign/Justice for Janitors/Fight for $15 The South Africa Anti-Apartheid Movement The Poland Solidarity Movement The Peace Movement and the War in Iraq and Afghanistan Lessons from the Freedom Struggles of the 1960’s (Montgomery Bus Boycott, Lunch Counter Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer) Mass Incarceration/Criminal Justice) “Black Lives Matter” The Women’s Movement The LGBTQ Movement The Gun Control Movement The Climate Justice Movement Each student will write an 8 to 10-page research paper. You may select from the proposed research topics, Analyze a social movement, evaluate its use of nonviolent strategy and tactics, describe the power relationships, and evaluate its outcomes or expected outcomes. Please integrate material from lectures, readings, and class discussion in your paper when appropriate. Also, please cite sources and include a minimum of five sources not included in the readings and syllabus. Due on the last day of class. (1/3 of the grade) The Immigrant Rights Movement/The Immigrant Youth Movement/Deportations/Sanctuary The Minimum Wage or Anti-Wage Theft Campaigns The Anti-Sweatshop Movement The United Farm Workers Movement The Car Wash Organizing Campaign/Justice for Janitors/Fight for $15 The South Africa Anti-Apartheid Movement The Poland Solidarity Movement The Peace Movement and the War in Iraq and Afghanistan Lessons from the Freedom Struggles of the 1960’s (Montgomery Bus Boycott, Lunch Counter Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer) Mass Incarceration/Criminal Justice) “Black Lives Matter” The Women’s Movement The LGBTQ Movement The Gun Control Movement The Climate Justice Movement