A central paradox of the black experience in America is that it has been a separate entity, yet inseparable from the fabric of American life. One of the major dilemmas in teaching African American history is this paradox of being “apart from” while at the same time “a part of” the United States. For almost 90 percent of the time that African Americans have lived in the United States or the North American colonies, taking 1619 as a starting point and the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a culmination, they have basically constituted “a nation within a nation.” Although there have been points of intersection, African Americans have generally been born, educated, baptized, socialized, and buried at some distance removed from the dominant society. RESEARCH EXERCISE This is assignment ask you use one of the basic research to to locate a articles, website , film , etc. on Black Life during the American Colonial Period. The two main types of research are qualitative research and quantitative research. Qualitative research is descriptive in nature, because it generally deals with non-numerical and unquantifiable things. EXERCISE: You are asked to use one of the suggestive ( But not limited to these sources) to locate research material : on” African / Black American during he Colonial Period SUGGESTIVE RESOURCES CUNY LIBRARY DATABASE, GOOGLE, JSTOR SUGGESTIVE OTHER RESEARCH SITES: FACING HISTORY : LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; NATIONAL ARCHIVES : ASSIGNMENT: 1. Provide the Title of the material you have located in your research briefly summarize its content 2. Briefly explain why you chose your SITE ( article, books, film, ) explain how this information provide descriptive,survey, historical, content analysis, qualitative (ethnographic, narrative, phenomenological, grounded theory, and case study on African American Life and Conditions during the Colonial period 3. Define your research source as qualitative research and quantitative research…why Would you recommend the ” source” to classmates and why ?
