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For this paper, you will be using the texts and tools available through the library to research a particular time, place, and topic, and write a 1,500+ word paper. The topic has to be relevant to a class in American multiculturalism, which means that your paper should take into account at least two cultures that were affected by the time, place, and topic. If you need help thinking of a subject, try going back to Topic Suggestions for Paper 1 (available as part of the Definition Paper Assignment Sheet).
Keep the four aspects—multiple cultures, time, place, and topic—in mind as you think about a subject. You could do something like Chinese immigrant poets and the Beats in San Francisco during the 1950s, or the Chicago blues scene and the zoning commissions in the 1960s, or the GLBTQI people wanting to march in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in the 1990s. . . . Is there some part of your own or your family's history that you would like to place in an historical context?
I have no fucking clue, and Wikipedia won't give me one either. So. First person to come up with a relevant time, place, two cultures, and a topic when a cookie. A real one if you live in the Twin Cities. And I still have to figure out the audience and thesis and find all my reference materials, and actually write the paper, so it's not really cheating. Just being clueless about American history. ^_^;;;
P.S. If you're really uncomfortable with just telling me what to write about, but you have an idea, if you could at least point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. For example, if cultures A and B were involved in C in the year D, you could just tell me to look into two of the categories so that I'd find the other two on my own.
For this paper, you will be using the texts and tools available through the library to research a particular time, place, and topic, and write a 1,500+ word paper. The topic has to be relevant to a class in American multiculturalism, which means that your paper should take into account at least two cultures that were affected by the time, place, and topic. If you need help thinking of a subject, try going back to Topic Suggestions for Paper 1 (available as part of the Definition Paper Assignment Sheet).
Keep the four aspects—multiple cultures, time, place, and topic—in mind as you think about a subject. You could do something like Chinese immigrant poets and the Beats in San Francisco during the 1950s, or the Chicago blues scene and the zoning commissions in the 1960s, or the GLBTQI people wanting to march in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in the 1990s. . . . Is there some part of your own or your family's history that you would like to place in an historical context?
I have no fucking clue, and Wikipedia won't give me one either. So. First person to come up with a relevant time, place, two cultures, and a topic when a cookie. A real one if you live in the Twin Cities. And I still have to figure out the audience and thesis and find all my reference materials, and actually write the paper, so it's not really cheating. Just being clueless about American history. ^_^;;;
P.S. If you're really uncomfortable with just telling me what to write about, but you have an idea, if you could at least point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. For example, if cultures A and B were involved in C in the year D, you could just tell me to look into two of the categories so that I'd find the other two on my own.
