Proposal only!!
Research paper.  Choose a focused category of The Politics of Identity that interests you and that relates to one of the areas covered in the syllabus and course readings (race, class, gender, sexual orientation etc.).  Using Temple University Library electronic databases, find a minimum of three good articles on a behavior or phenomenon related to the topic and assess the authors’ explanations/theory for the phenomenon. What are the strengths and shortcomings of each explanation?