Chicago style Turbian 8-10 pages with sources
Your major writing assignment for this semester is a term paper based on primary-source research. Your paper may address any aspect of racial thought in American history, including transnational discourses that include American writers and thinkers.
In crafting a paper, you need to make several important decisions. Your paper must be framed to address a significant problem in the history of racial and racist thought, but at the same time be focused and narrow enough to be practicable.
You need to find and use a body of relevant primary sources to answer a question about the past in a circumscribed way that avoids over-generalization, on the one hand, and overly specific informational compilation of detail, on the other.
Write a term paper on how Darwinism shaped racial ideologies in the late nineteenth century.
(a 10-12 page paper)
But, you could frame a problem about Darwinism and late nineteenth-century racial thought and use a case example of a particular writer to illuminate that issue.
That is, your paper needs to both address an important historical problem or question, but do so in a very specific way. Important issues in the history of racial thought
