African-american history 152
RESEARCH TERM PAPER TOPIC:
The topic of the research paper should pertain to one of the course theme or issues covered in the weekly reading assignments for the course. The research term paper will be an analytical essay that focuses on three books selected from the research book list. If you are unable to locate a book on the research book list, substitute selections are to be approved by the instructor before writing this paper. It is advisable that the books provide background or reference reading for your panel topic.
RESEARCH PAPER FORMAT:
Your research paper should be 6-10 pages, typed, double-spaced in length. Your term paper should have a title, use a statement (quote) from a primary source, and contain an analysis of each of the three books you chose. A primary source is, for example, a document, newspaper article, speech, or memoir that grew out of a historical event. Your paper should have an introduction that states the importance of your course-theme topic, and preferably uses an excerpt from a primary source that illustrates the importance of your topic.
The body should include the following for each book:
1)Full citation(i.e., author, title, city of publication, publisher, date)
2)The book authors purpose and thesis or main argument. What is the issue that the author is trying to solve?
3)Describe with detail the method that the author used in approaching his/her topici.e. Conceptual framework, research methods, and types of evidence used.
4)Summarize the findings that the author makes to verify or prove his/her thesis or main ideas (i.e., No.2) as it relates to our paper topic. Compare how the book related to (or did not relate to) your topic or theme, and the specific argument of a textbook author (e.g. James/Lois Horton, manning Marable, or Carson) on your topic.
5)In your opinion was the work of these books adequate in addressing your topic? Which of the books was the strongest, weakest, and why.
Here are the three resources for this research paper:
1) Study on the Internet:
http://www.blackpast.org/perspectives/africans-and-african-americans-china-long-history-troubled-present-and-promising-future
BOOKS:
2) The African American Encounter with Japan and China
Black Inernationalism in Asia, 1895-1945
by Marc Gallicchi
University of North Carolina Press
3) Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans
Editor(s): Fred Ho, Bill V. Mullen
Contributor(s): Fred Ho, Lisa Li Shen Yun, Daniel Widener, Mao Zedong, Robin D. G. Kelley, Diane C Fujino, Kalamu ya Salaam, Ishmael Reed, Cheryl Higashida, Kim Hewitt, Royal Hartigan, Ron Wheeler, Thien-bao Phi, David Mura, Ishle Yi Park, Maya Santos, Joyin Shih, Everett Hoagland, Bill V. Mullen, Elizabeth Esch, David Kaufman, Alexs Pate
(Duke University Press 2008)
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
By Vijay Prashad
(2002)
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