Assignment
African American music/film history four to five pages in length, plus a title page and reference list, formatted according to APA style.
Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
Choose from one of the topics below and analyze its history from 1877 to the present.
My topic-African American music/film history
Select four specific events or developments that span the years covered by this course, based on their impact on the topic.
Two of the events must be from before 1945 and two events must be from after 1945. You must assess how the events in relationship to the topic changed over time and explain how the changes occurred.
Write an introduction with a thesis. Your thesis should summarize the main conclusions that you discovered while researching your topic and that you will support with a logical argument based on evidence (sources). Please refer back to your Week Three Assignment, consider your instructor's comments, and make any necessary revisions to your thesis statement.
Connect each of the events or developments you have chosen back to your main thesis. The information presented must be organized and in chronological order.
You must use at least four sources in your paper other than the textbook, with at least two primary sources and at least two secondary sources.
For example, a student writing a paper about the topic African Americans might choose the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Power Movement as two of their events. In that case, the paper would provide a description of the two movements. It would explain what each one revealed about the role of African Americans in broader American society in, respectively, the
1920s and the late 1960s, explain how and why the roles of African Americans in the 1920s differed from their roles in the late 1960s, and explain how events in the 1920s may have contributed to developments in the later decade.