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*Did you change your research question since Monday? How? (Did you narrow it? Make it broader?)

Since Monday I think I finally realized what I wanted my research question to be. I was having issues before because I had so many ideas that I was having a difficult time forming one question. Monday I knew our topic was Xenophobia and how racism was a form of Xenophobia. I wanted to explain how people show their Xenophobia or in our case how they show their racism. Since racism is such a broad concept, I wanted to give a more specific example. So my research topic is to explain how the KKK showed their fear of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement. Though their methods were horrible, showing violence and both physical and psychological intimidation, is a way of dealing with fears of African Americans and their fear of that race taking over during the Civil Right Movement.

From there I broke it down to what forms of intimidation did the KKK use to express their fears towards African Americans during the Civil Right Movement?

I then narrowed it to in what ways did the KKK express their fears towards African Americans giving examples of their actions, words, as well as various forms of physical and psychological intimidation.

I decided to go this direction because it is the opposite view that I have studied before. In other classes I have written papers on the KKK and how they are a hate group. I thought it would be interesting to try to see the KKK’s actions from the view of them being fearful.

Resources for my research will probably be news articles, and psychology journals.

*And I still need to look into this further but I actually saw something on the news the other day about a KKK legal fight going on right now.* The issue is unrelated to the Civil Right Movement but shows that they are still an on-going group.

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