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The following are some suggested possible topics for your research essay. You may think of others, but your topic should have some relation to the readings or ideas that were discussed in this course. When you have decided on a given topic, or perhaps more than one that you are considering, write it down on the Discussions page. The list as of now:

  1. Smart Houses
  2. Robots
  3. Nukes 
  4. Good and/or bad use of the Internet
  5. The Harlem Renaissance
  6. Harlem
  7. Langston Hughes
  8. Any individual author
  9. Traumatic experiences from childhood
  10. The African American Experience in America
  11. Slavery
  12. Jim Crow
  13. Racial Profiling 
  14. Incarceration as The New Slavery
  15. Unequal Justice System in the U.S.
  16. Birth of a Nation
  17. The War on Drugs 
  18. Assassination of Black leaders
  19. Reparations
  20. Bail 
  21. Economic inequality and how it intersects with racism 
  22. Do immigrants take away jobs from others?
  23. The Asian American Experience in America
  24. Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
  25. The Muslim Experience in America
  26. Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect
  27. The Immigrant Experience in America
  28. History of contrasting attitudes towards immigrants
  29. Immigration issues at the southern border 
  30. The Native American Experience in America
  31. Cancel culture and how to do deal with history
  32. Womens issues
  33. the 19th amendment
  34. The Suffragist Movement
  35. The Role of Women in stories by Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Susan Glaspell
  36. Women and depression 
  37. Understanding of Mental Illness Then and Now
  38. Lobotomies
  39. Domestic Abuse 
  40. Effects of the pandemic on any of the above (pick an aspect)