Humanities Homework Help

Drawing on assigned readings, explain the historical context and factors that shaped the emergence of Africana Studies as an academic discipline—how and why was education critical to the struggle for inclusion and racial transformation?

Word Count: minimum 1000 words; maximum 1250 words.

Please include your word count in your submission.

Writing Tips

• Argument: Your first paragraph must contain your essay’s central argument. You might consider underlining this argument, so that it is crystal clear.
• Clarity and Organization: Once you’ve settled on a central argument, be sure that you organize your paper around it and cut out any word, phrase, sentence, or paragraph that doesn’t advance it. 
• Evidence: In building the case for your argument, be sure to cite numerous, specific examples. Please use parenthetic citations: (Gomez, 104).  Please include a bibliography. You will not be graded on the formatting of these citations; just make it clear what source you’re citing.
• Analysis: Sophisticated, nuanced arguments are best. So do not ignore evidence that doesn’t quite fit your thesis. Instead, try to tweak your thesis to accommodate this conflicting evidence; or briefly mention this evidence and then explain why it is perhaps an exception to the general rule or argument you’re laying out.
• Writing tone and style: This paper, unlike your weekly responses, must be scholarly in tone. For example, do not use contractions such as “don’t.” In terms of style, focus most intently on being clear and concise                
• Essays will be graded based primarily on the following questions:
  • Does your essay have a central argument?                       
  • How well organized is your paper? Does it revolve around one central argument?
  • How interesting, persuasive, and sophisticated is the argument and the analysis that leads to it?
  • Is your writing clear and concise?