briefly state the topic of the paper is going to be and what your working thesis is. Don’t just tell me the title; describe your topic
Also, provide links to three sources you are going to use in completing the paper.
Pick a particular organization, group, movement leader or population that identifies with one of the broader social movements, and explore how that organization/group both allies itself and differentiates itself from other groups in the broader movement. The paper should also explore the historical origins of the broader movement from which your organization, group, or movement leader emerged, and the specific circumstances which led to its creation.
Your central research question should be How does this organization, group, or leader fit into the broader movement of which it is a part?
You are encouraged to choose an organization or individual whom you have direct access to, and for which you can incorporate interviews, site visits, and fieldwork into discovering more about. This can be a currently operating movement or organization, or one which had been active in the past. However, this is not a requirement. You can also approach the paper from strictly a research-oriented perspective, especially if you are interested in a movement which you may not have direct access to (i.e. the Chinese democracy movement of 1989.)
Example: If you would like to write about the history of the environmental movement, you could contact a current organization in the NYC area, and interview the director of that organization. Or, you could specifically study a particular environmental organization using library research. Your paper about that organization would discuss not also its history, its mission, and the issues in the movement it focuses on specifically, but also other organizations or strands of the movement to which it is related and interacts.
