LITR 5731: Seminar in American Minority Literature
University of Houston-Clear Lake, fall 2001
Index to Student Research Projects

Below are links to copies of student research projects. These papers are provided to serve as models and as research aids for future students as well as to create an opportunity for present students to share their research with each other. Most of the papers are posted "as they came in." Therefore, some editing and format problems may remain. (Italics, underlines, and indentations are especially vulnerable to formatting changes through electronic transmission.)

Donnette Arnold (LITR), journal: "The Changing Literary Canon: University Education and Politics"

Rachel Boyle (CRCL), journal: "Quilts: a secret language, metaphorical meaning, and oppression"

Andrea Dunn (CRCL), journal: "African American Names and Naming: The Social Real and Fiction"

Tara Edwards (LITR), essay: "The Dangers of Revealing Educational Levels among Characters in African American Literature"

Erin Gouner (LITR), essay: "Double Minorities"

Jamie Grayson (LITR), essay: "Minority References to Flight"

Linda Harvey (LITR), "Journal: The Emergence of Voice in Mexican American Literature"

Linda Higginbotham (LITR), essay: "Toni Morrison and Historical Memory"

Chris Lucas (LITR), essay: "The Role of Alternative Families in Minority Literature"

David Miller (LITR), journal: "Richard Rodriguez: Personal and Political"

Becky Nelson (LITR), "Journal on the Apocalypse and Apocalyptic Imagery as Expressed Within the Minority Experience"

Jill Petersen (LITR), journal: "It's All a Big MYTH!"

Jill Reioux (LITR), journal: "Repressed Voices Speak Out: A Comparison Between the Poetry of White Women and Black Men in the Early Twentieth Century"

Sancar Sallanti (LITR), essay: "Ghost Dance"

Michelle Stephenson (CRCL), journal: "Literature of the Civil Rights Movement: A Black Woman's Perspective"

Philonis Stevenson (LITR), journal: "The Renaissance: Harlem and Beyond"

Jennifer Thurik (LITR), journal: "Magical Realism in Minority Literature as defined by Morrison and Anaya"