Due End of class Today - March 3, 2025
In NoodleTools:
Enter three sources relevant to your research interests.
For each source, you must add the following to the source annotation:
Paragraph #1: Who created the source? Is this source a primary source or a secondary source? What is the main idea of the source and what did you learn from the source?
Paragraph #2 How specifically this source is relevant to your potential research topic?
Specific Project Directions
Project will be 10% of your overall AP Exam Score.
Selected Sources Template (2 points) -- just like an annotated bibliography proper citation formatting and source analysis. You must submit the Selected Sources Template to your teacher. You will select four sources to submit and to discuss thoroughly in the exam.
Eight Minute Presentation and Oral Defense (8.5 points)
Project Rubric
Scoring Break Down for Exam:
Multiple Choice Questions: 60%
Free Response Questions: 30%
Final Project (Source Template, Presentation, Oral Defense, Written Oral Defense Question on Exam): 10%
Topic Ideas from American Historical Association
Current Scholarly Work
Presentations at the American Historical Society’s Annual Conference 2024 Relevant to APAAS Final Project:
Medical Reparations
Historiographical movement of micro-histories “approaches, challenges, and promises afforded by microhistorical methods to the study of slavery and enslaved people.”
Mixed marriages and gender dynamics
Race, Violence and Resistance in Afro-Latin America
Routes of Enslavement in the Americas
Black Resistance Across Time and Place: focus on a different theme and method of resistance by African Americans and demonstrate the impact of those histories on the present day.
You Don’t Have to Be White or Gay to Get AIDS”: Race and Inequality in New Histories of an Epidemic: We need a much more diverse set of histories if we are to understand the ways that the epidemic has shaped the last four decades of U.S. history, and to draw out lessons for how to mitigate racial and economic disparities in public health crises going forward.
Recent Developments in APAAS- significance of the challenges and changes
California’s 19th- and 20th-Century African American Civil Rights Movements: Complicating the National Narrative: Drawing on studies of San Francisco in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in California, the military community of Seaside connected to the massive Fort Ord training base, and a San Diego anti-discrimination lawsuit that was part of late nineteenth century organizing for equal rights, this panel explores a range of ways that activism challenged racist policies and practices.
Disability in Labor, Law, and Ideology during the Long 18th Century: Perspectives on Enslavement and Manumission: Focusing on the contested notion of “soundness,” or the qualities of body and mind that would enable “productive” and self-sustaining labor, the panel maps the laws regarding enslavement, manumission, and taxation as well as related arguments made by jurists, medical practitioners, governing officials, townsfolk, slaveowners, and, significantly, the enslaved themselves.
Conservationist, Environmental Movements and Race
Hidden No More: Uncovering Black Women’s History through National Parks: discuss how Black women’s history is being made more visible at National Parks and Historic Sites, as well as how it can be further revealed.
Black Mourning and Memorials in the Struggle for Racial Equality: explore the customs, rituals, ideas, and movements that shape and emerge from the mourning and memorialization of deceased Black people. In the Black struggle for full equality, acts of mourning and memorialization have served as a central means for Black communities to mobilize against lynching, state violence, and Jim Crow as well as influence public narratives about race.
SNCC
New Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution:Today the Haitian Revolution is regarded as one of the most important events in the so-called Age of Atlantic Revolution, with a profound impact on slave-holding societies throughout the Americas and on conceptions of race and citizenship throughout the Atlantic World.
Reimagining the Origins of the Slave Trade in the Spanish Empire: examines how the islands became a testing ground for "legal" justifications of slavery, as mediated by both the state and the Catholic Church, highlighting how the logic developed therein would be central to future campaigns to enslave both indigenous and Afro-descended peoples.
Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Politics of Provision: Enabling critical flows of resources, people, and information, infrastructure includes among its forms streets and highways, bridges and tunnels, waterways and railroads, water and sanitation systems, energy grids and telecommunications networks, ports, dams, airports, and myriad official buildings; such physical forms produce infrastructure’s functions, including education, employment, transportation, public health, recreation, housing, and, of course, market integration and disintegration. What does a nation’s particular physical and functional pattern of infrastructure reveal about its political priorities and cultural dynamics?
Rethinking the Abolition of Slavery in Africa’s Legal Histories: When, why, and how did African rulers, politicians, intellectuals, legal and religious specialists, activists, free commoners and enslaved persons begin to mobilize against slavery? What normative ideas did they develop to challenge what had been a legitimate institution in the legal traditions and moral values of their societies? How did different groups of Africans relate to European antislavery interventionism in various African societies and locations?
Student Movements and Youth Activism
Food History: What we eat may be a signifier of identity – religious, ethnic, class - or location – temporal or geographic. Comestibles are used to police the borders of race and gender. Food allows us to see how other categories of knowledge are defined too.
Beauty and Power: explore the historical relationship between beauty and women’s place in society. By studying the intersections of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, and class in perceptions of female beauty, this research illustrates the mobilization of beauty for social and political purposes.
Fugitivity in the US South: Fugitivity is a critical keyword n Black Studies. Fugitivity is inextricable from the context of slavery and the inventions of western modernity that surveilled and policed Black mobility
Education: topics to consider - history of education by drawing upon Geography, Curriculum Studies, Black Studies, and Critical Ethnic Studies to depict how progenitors of liberatory education from various ethno-racial formations–Black, Native, and Latina–unsettled the dominating framings of race and racial formations of their respective eras OR curriculum development OR teacher preparation
Setting the Record Straight: Reworking Narratives of 20th-Century Black Life and Culture: delve into black expressions of 20th century black resistance to white supremacy and grapples with the tension between these narratives and the still pervasive narratives, theories, and images of black life as shaped exclusively by the relationship of black people to whiteness, white supremacy, and white oppression. We consider the genesis of the dominant narratives, the ways in which black artists, individuals, and activists have challenged them, as well as the sociopolitical and cultural responses to those challenges, including silencing, destructive public policy, and the massive dissemination of modern stereotypes, as false and detrimental as “Jim Crow” himself.
Open Water: Afroaquatics and History: Historical accounts indicate that early modern African-descended people were significantly stronger swimmers than people of European descent. For instance, enslavers compelled enslaved Africans to serve as pearl and salvage divers. Twentieth century circumstances—namely Jim Crow era segregation and racialized violence, ongoing issues of access to public swimming pools, and perceptions that swimming is “un-black” or a “white” activity—discouraged black swimming, so, today African Americans are roughly 10 times more likely to drown than white Americans.
Strategic Source Selection:
Select one of the sources you used and explain why you chose this source to in your project.
Identify the source that most deepened your understanding of your topic and explain in what way it added depth to your understanding of your topic.
Describe which of the various perspectives you explored was most difficult for you to incorporate into your project and explain why this was the case.
Comparison of Sources:
Explain why one of your sources is more convincing than another.
Describe any lack of agreement or contradictory information you found as you did your research. Explain what this agreement or contradiction revealed about your topic.
Other Questions:
Describe one piece of information you learned from a source you used in your project that was not included in your classroom instruction.
Explain how the research you conducted revealed additional questions or insights about your topic.
Steps to Complete Selected Source Template:
Open pdf titled: AP African American Studies Student Workbook
To write on the Selected Source Template, click the icon with the pencil and three dots in the upper right hand corner.
Identify the source type.
Paste in proper APA OR MLA.
Provide specific details in your summary of the source. Do not say: "This source tells me a lot about the topic."
Provide specific examples of how you will use the source. Show how the source relates to your other sources.
Review the Sample Selected Sources Template.
In-depth historical engagements • The impact of the domestic slave trade on Black families • Abolition and Abolitionists: Major figures, dynamics, and milestones • The role of religion in African American resistance to enslavement • The impact of the G.I. Bill • Local African American history and culture • Black participation in the military: barriers and breakthroughs Politics and policy debates • Affirmative Action: approaches and controversies • Black Lives Matter: Origins, impacts, critics • Reparations debates in the U.S./ the Americas • The legacy of redlining • Crime, criminal justice, and incarceration • Race and healthcare outcomes in the United States • Black conservatism: development and ideology • Black politics: African Americans and the political spectrum Societal examinations • African Americans and the built environment: architecture and design • African American demographics: patterns of migration and ethnic diversity • The Black family in the 20th century • African American inventors and inventions • Intersections of race, gender, and class • Afrocentricity and Black Nationalism: conservatives, liberals, and radicals • Medical Ethics: The Tuskegee Study; Henrietta Lacks • Black athletes: history, achievement, and social role • Black thought leaders: writings, contributions, and impact • Medicine, technology, and the environment • The Black Middle Class in the 20th century Immersions in the Arts • The influence of African mythology and folklore in the Americas • African American performance art • The Harlem Renaissance: major works, figures, influences • The Chicago Black Renaissance: major works, figures, influences • Iconography in Black faith traditions 4 • Politics in the poetry and drama of the Black Arts Movement Global Studies • Africa and slavery; resistance, participation, and impact • African American cultural ties to Africa • Art and Social Change across the African Diaspora • Resistance and revolts: struggle across the diaspora • The evolution of civil rights legislation
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCE COLLECTIONS:
Slave Voyages (the premier database on the transatlantic and intercontinental slave trade): https://www.slavevoyages.org
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (part of the New York Public Library Digital Collections, research guides linked): https://libguides.nypl.org/nyplschomburg
The Colored Conventions Project: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century: https://coloredconventions.org
Black Perspectives (open source resources by the African American Intellectual History Society): https://www.aaihs.org/black-perspectives/
Freedom on the Move: Rediscovering the Stories of Self-Liberating People (database): https://freedomonthemove.org
BlackPast (repository of primary documents, speeches, timelines, and secondary articles related to African American history and culture, contemporary issues, and the global African diaspora): https://www.blackpast.org
Smithsonian Institution Free Databases and Collections: https://library.si.edu/research/free-databasesand-collections
National Archives online databases: https://www.archives.gov/research/databases
Library of Congress digital collections: https://www.loc.gov/
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History digital collection: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/gilder-lehrman-collection
EBSCO Free Research Databases: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/free-databases
10 Free Online Educational Databases Every Student Should Know & Use | Science Times: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/27201/20200907/10-free-online-educational-databases-everystudent-should-know-use.htm
TOOLS FOR CONDUCTING RESEARCH:
Pacific Lutheran University Research Resources for Students: https://www.plu.edu/library/research/research-resources/
Research and Citation Resources through Purdue University: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/
Sort/Filter results by "Primary Documents" or "Documents" to locate primary sources relevant to your research topic.
Find primary source documents on the Open Web by search university collections and government data. Use your domain limiting technique:
site:edu or site:gov. For example African American women artists site:edu or African American women artists site:gov gives you these results:
