Race and your community?

I need some help hopefully someone can give me some ideas for my final paper in one of my classes. No i am not looking for anyone to do my homework just for some ideas its about Race in the community I havent lived in the U.S. long enought to know much about racism here.

Here is whats asked for

Prepare a 1,400- to 1,750-word autobiographical research paper that analyzes the

influences of race as it relates to your community. In your paper, write your first-person

account of how human interactions in your community have been racialized. For the

community, you can consider relations within your neighborhood, local government,

service groups, clubs, schools, workplace, or any environment of which you are a part.

Once again I am just looking for some ideas I can write my own paper.

Thanks for those who help me with this.

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First, make it easy on yourself and pick one of those subcategories that you are most familiar with.

If you work, do it on work.

If not, do it on school.

If it is on work, you could examine the diversity of employees and maybe their views of social interactions at work - does their ethnicity hinder their performance? language barrier? discrimination? is there an engineer from Bosnia that is working as a dishwasher? do other workers view other races as less intelligent? less capable?

If you do school - are there any organizations/clubs that directly represent diverse cultures? is race talked about in classes, or is it side saddled? do different races hang out in different spots?

Whatever place you decide to start, put yourself into it. Express your own views and feelings. In addition, conduct a couple personal interviews - with various races. Be sure to include both sides of the issue so that your paper doesn't appear racist.

Good luck to you!

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As the paper is both autobiographical and your experience in the U.S. (and by extension, your community) is limited, perhaps you could take one or two experiences that you have witnessed and expand them into a more general exposition related to similar experiences elsewhere.
I would ask your teacher if you can write the paper as it relates to your native country and community.

If your teacher is a hard nose and says no, you can still do the assignment, it will just take more research.

A good place to start is on blogspot.com. Type in their search engine "jenna 6", "noose", "racial profiling", and "hate crime". Be sure to read a balanced sampling, so you get a fair representation from the different viewpoints.

Then, compile a list of topics you would like to discuss, and find news articles, and look on Wikipedia. Use the references on Wikipedia (at the bottom of each page), to get more information.

Having this information might allow you to form an opinion on racism as it relates to the U.S.

I know your assignment is to study the subject as it relates to your local community. So, this information will also give some talking points when interviewing and discussing the subject with people in your local area.

Good luck.