For our final project, you will choose a current event, social issue, or topic, and directly connect it to our class content on the history and effects of racial formation.
Based on the knowledge you have acquired in our class please answer the following:
How did U.S. history as it pertains to racial formation contribute to the shaping of this current event/social problem?
How does this current event/social issue effect historically racially marginalized communities (Indigenous/Native Americans, Black/African American, Chicana(o)/Mexican American/Latino, Chinese Americans, and Filipino Americans, etc.)?
Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following :
Policing and Incarceration
Segregation and Redlining
Art
Civil Rights
DACA/Dreamers,
Immigration and deportation policies
Discriminatory legislation
Education (K-12) or Higher Ed
Experience of workers (farm workers, factory workers, domestic workers, business industry, etc.)
Gender roles
Family life
Health
LGBTQIA+ rights
Military
Music
Politics
White supremacy
Reproductive justice
Sexual assault
Women’s rights
Foreign Policy and conflicts (war)
For your project you will need to utilize your research skills to make, and support your argument, to discuss the history of the issue, and to connect it to the present.
Virtual Presentation Guidelines
This can be in the form of a digital poster/info-graphic/public service announcement / slides prestation
More creative freedom but same amount of information
Name of your current event, social problem, or topic
Your argument/thesis
Main points
Four or more images related to your current event or topic
Work Cited Page
you must use 2 articles from google schoalr : https://scholar.google.com/
( you can also choose what topic you want to talk about just make sure you make it the title for the project – as long it follows up with the main foucs)
It doesn’t has to be over the top professinal – it can be creative and fun slides ( as long it’s infromative and looks nice )
you dont have to do speaker notes
& not every slide needs to have 500+ words 200-350 is good
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