Speed Dating

I want to study _________________ because I want to find out _________________

Tasks

• Provide feedback on your partner's topic/question
• Ask your partner to clarify something (methodological or conceptual)
• Give suggestions for background research or context

Critically review the topic

• I want to study the Black Lives Matter movement because I want to find out what college students think about the movement

I want to study opinions about the Black Lives Matter movement amongst college students because I want to find out how young people react to the disproportionate number of Black victims of police violence and what normative views may influence these opinions.

Questions to clarify

• Why young people?
• What do you expect to find?

Suggestions

• There's a "Lie to Me" episode that deals with police brutality against African Americans
• Did you read that editorial in the New Yorker about the appropriation poet who performed a public reading of Michael Brown's autopsy report?
• Sociologist Joe Faegin writes about the normalization of the White Racial Frame