Research Ideas
by Jasmine Hill
1. How could a city eliminate poverty?
2. Society's adherence to the paper-bag test: Correllations between skin color and income level
3. Black America: Realities and Perceptions of What Makes 'Us' in 2013
4. Post-Racialism, as Practiced by Progressives
5. Genealogy study of rich and poor black people in present day - watch how historical and political changes/opportunities determine family outcomes
6. Continue analysis on regional social mobility data for trends based on race and causation factors
7. Analyze the behavioral patterns of the chronically unemployed
8. Can cultural capital be taught?
9. Why don't Black people move to Canada? : Race, Immigration and Opportunity
10. Why don't Black people move to Canada? : Race, Immigration and Opportunity
11. "Playing Police" - what does this game look like among different communities of children and what does this say about our experience with police brutality
12. Limits and benefits of the housing first, section 8 and public housing models - other ideas
12.1. What are the police's responsibility to residents of public housing?
13. How does media contribute to black poverty and public adversity to pro-black legislative programs?
13.1. How does the framing of an issue change everything - i.e. prostitution vs. humn trafficing
13.1.1. What are new "spins" on poverty issues and how do they reasonate with people?
14. How much equity will capitalism allow?
15. Different modules for policing and incarceration
15.1. What does community based policing look like?
15.1.1. What are the rights of prisoners and how they differe from the citizenry?
16. What "breaks" do the poor and successful get? How do we duplicate that?
16.1. Why are there so few straight black males at UCLA? How are the black women making it?
16.2. What resources do you need to be socially mobile?
16.2.1. What are the new human rights?