I need a draft and the outline. Please read carefully each part of the
instructions and completed properly
Length: 5 pages (1 page questions, 4 pages report/analysis)
Must be uploaded as .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf
For this paper, you will be engaging in a short oral history project
involving data collection, analysis and presentation. Each student will
choose a particular event in African-American history (or American history
that is relevant to the African-American experience) between 1920 and 2020
that is particularly memorable.
Choosing an obscure topic can often result in a more fascinating, and
paradoxically, easier-to-write paper. But the pandemic and the George Floyd
protests are current, massively important events for this course, and
students are encouraged to use those as topics if they wish.
a) Define the event (or series of events, or period)
b) Find individuals living during the period who remember the event
c) Determine what questions should be asked of those individuals about the
event
d) Pool the data and questions about the event collected and present it in
a short analytical report using outside sources.
You should interview no fewer than two people about the event, and you
should attempt to have your subjects be as diverse as possible. I will
leave the choice of subjects up to you.
Interviews need not be in person, and can be done over email, phone, etc.
Follow-up interviews may be necessary to clarify certain points raised in
the initial interview, and which come up during creation of the paper.
The questions need not be complex, but each interviewer must have a
historical knowledge of the event such that they know how to talk about the
event, they know how to listen to the subject concerning the event, and
perhaps know how to respond with follow-up questions that may not be on the
group's prepared list of questions.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When we talk about African-American history, it is
important to understand that every American's history is inextricably bound
up with "African-American" history. Every event in American history is, in
some way, also an event in African-American history. So, you do not need to
limit yourself to events that are of primary importance to African-American
history, such as events in the Civil Rights movement or the Los Angeles
Riots of 1992. You can choose, for instance, the election of Ronald Reagan
to the Presidency in 1980, or even the first Iraq War. However, you should
choose your interview subjects and relate your questions to the event as
the event may pertain to African-American history. For instance, the
election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency in 1980 had a major effect on
American social policy towards African Americans. How did the
African-American community react to the election? Who was the community's
generally preferred candidate and why? etc. These are all potential
questions. Of course, every war impacts the African-American experience as
well.
Older interview subjects are particularly preferred, i.e. grandparents,
because their knowledge is more in danger of being lost. But you can ask
your next-door neighbor, your relative living overseas, or your sister.
Just get two good subjects.
The older the event, and the more the information is in danger of being
lost, the better.
Examples of recent events:
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (or Malcolm X, JFK, RFK, etc.)
Los Angeles Riots of 1992
Watts Riots
O.J. Simpson verdict/aftermath
Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings
Emmett Till murder and trial
Appointment of Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Washington, 1963
Any major Presidential election
The First or Second Gulf Wars
War in Afghanistan
9/11/01
Jackie Robinson breaking the "color line" in baseball
Hurricane Katrina
COVID-19
The George Floyd Protests
There are several other events one can choose from but remember that
smaller events might not be remembered by everyone. However, the more
obscure events can generate more original research, and interesting results.
Your paper should consist of three main components. The first two need only
be in list format. You should include in your report
1) a list of the prepared questions asked, (1 page)
2) a list of those interviewed, and most importantly (1/4 page)
3) a report analyzing the answers to these questions and any follow-up
questions. (3-4 pages)
Your paper should also use outside sources (secondary sources are fine) to
describe the event itself and to help analyze the particular perspective
your subjects bring to the event. For instance, if you interview your
mother about the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, and she worked in
an office at the time, you might want to find out how working women viewed
King at the time. This can help shed light on your mother’s reaction, and
on the reaction of middle-class working women in the 1960s in general. This
is only one example among an infinite number of examples.
Most of all, have fun. Interviewing your elders (this does not necessarily
refer to your relations) and showing an interest in their personal history
can be a very rewarding experience.
3-4 sources is alright, and MLA format would be best. I have one small
request however, if you could please send a slightly rough draft while you
are half way through your work that would be amazing something like a rough
idea of the historical event pertaining to African-American history you are
writing about and maybe some suggestion about what living persons you may
want to interview for the project and why you believe they will be strong
subjects, also what you think you may find in your interviews and what
differences in perspective, upbringing, background you may find between
your two interviewees. Lastly what you know about the event, and what you
anticipate you may learn about the event, and why applying the lens of
African-American history to this particular event is valuable, original,
and important. The reason I am asking for this is because there is a
brainstorm stage of this project due before the final, so for our works to
match I was wondering if youd be able to first map it out in this order,
and then finally finish forming it in the final which is the set of
directions I sent initially. Thank you sooo much.
NB: its an outline based on the questions I sent you which then continues
to become the full project. Its just a way for the professor to see what
we're writing about to give feedback before final draft is due.
something like a rough idea of the historical event pertaining to
African-American history you are writing about and maybe some suggestion
about what living persons you may want to interview for the project and why
you believe they will be strong subjects, also what you think you may find
in your interviews and what differences in perspective, upbringing,
background you may find between your two interviewees. Lastly what you know
about the event, and what you anticipate you may learn about the event, and
why applying the lens of African-American history to this particular event
is valuable, original, and important. The reason I am asking for this is
because there is a brainstorm stage of this project due before the final,
so for our works to match I was wondering if youd be able to first map it
out in this order, and then finally finish forming it in the final which is
the set of directions I sent initially.
those are the outline guidelines and the initial message I sent you is what
the final product should look like. You can simulate conversations with
african americans, you must make up names and a little stories to them
however
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