HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TASK
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TASK
The US Civil Rights Movement, AKA: The Sixties are Just Sexier –
The Modern Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacies
Historiographical Essay Guidelines
The historiographical essay, or literature review, is a discussion of the written discourse, or conversation, around a given subject, question, or theme. It is essentially a comparative essay, wherein you compare and contrast the respective treatments of a specific subject, question, or theme. It can be broad, focusing on many texts, or narrow, going deeply into one idea in just a few texts. It is typically about 30-35pp long.
For your final essay, please write a mini-historiographical essay. Select a key theme, for example, a moment, idea, organization, strategy, individual, or institution. Then select three texts that address your selection and compare and contrast what the three authors write about it. For example, you might consider the 3 portrayals of Ella Baker in Ransby, Carson, and Martinez. Or you might consider the way those same authors discuss SNCC. Or you might consider the ways in which Newton, X, and King discuss Black Power.
Please speak to me (after class or during office hours, which are noted on the syllabus) or email me (my email address is on the syllabus) and let me know your central theme and the 3 texts with which you plan to work.
Your 8-10pp essay should include:
· A title (that is NOT “historiographical essay”). Be a little creative and develop a title that reflects the content of your essay.
· An introduction that articulates your central theme your argument about the 3 texts.
· The body of your essay that compares and contrasts the three works while considering how they relate to each other and to your theme.
· Back up your argument with correctly cited textual evidence.
· A conclusion that considers which text you find most effective and why and wraps it all up.
· A Bibliography (non-annotated).
· Page numbers.
· Please use Chicago Manual of Style formatting & PROOFREAD.
Hard copies of the final essay are due in class on Tuesday, May 14th
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