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Citizenship, Race and Class
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Citizenship, Race and Class in 20th Century America
"In this course, we are going to examine the meanings Americans have given to the concept of citizenship. We will consider the role race and ethnicity have played in determining who can and cannot become a citizen. And we also will investigate the ways in which the entitlements of citizenship have or have not been distributed equally to all in the nation during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."
This guide provides a variety of research strategies, recommended information resources, and library services to assist your research of American citizenship.
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Research Assignment
CB 2061: Third Paper Deadlines
Third Paper Length: 12-15 pages
First draft due: November 9
Second draft due: the day following your presentation (We will have presentations on November 24 and December 1 and 2).
For your third paper, you are required to identify a policy or set of related policies on an issue of your choice that you believed had racialized consequences. The thesis statement of your paper should identify the racialized consequences the policy or policies had. You should also link the policy’s racialized outcomes to issues of citizenship. (The consequences do not have to be discriminatory. For example, if you were to study the Civil Rights Act of 1964, you would probably conclude that the law had racialized and positive outcomes.) Although you can use secondary sources (history books or other scholarly texts) to gather evidence, you should also consult as many of the following types of sources as possible: transcripts or other official documentation that describes the policy-making process; newspaper accounts of the policy-making process; accounts of activists who weighed in on policy-making; and accounts of activists alarmed by the racialized consequences of the policy policies. The professor can help guide you to these sources.
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Date due |
Assignment |
Length |
Percentage of you paper or project grade |
By email? |
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Oct. 9 |
Proposal: Identify the specific policy or policies you will be researching and explain what the policy or policies mandate. Also include your hypothesis as to how the policy or policies had racialized consequences. |
1-2 double-spaced pages |
10 |
yes |
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Oct. 21 |
Partially annotated bibliography: Identify at least three primary sources (historical documents from the time you’re studying) and at least three secondary sources (accounts by scholars) that you will be using for your paper or project. Three of your bibliography items must be annotated; you need to summarize the content or argument of the source. You must attach to your bibliography a print-out of a library catalog search you’ve completed on your topic. |
As long as it takes (probably 2-3 pages). |
10 |
yes |
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Oct. 28 |
Arguments: Identify the working thesis or argument of your paper. Also identify at least three major points that you will be making to substantiate your thesis. |
As long as it takes (perhaps 2 or so pages). |
15 |
yes |
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