I feel good this morning and ready to tackle another week as a full time master’s student. I got confirmation yesterday that I chose a good topic for exploration from my professor for Racism, Diversity, Oppression & Privilege class so that felt good. I am going to explore the following questions: When black men. women, and children go missing, why does it take society as a whole longer to find them? Why do they often not get found? It credit my girlfriend for the genesis of the idea while we were watching TV. There’s no shortage of material based on this.
On Saturday (9/13), the two of us watched the first episode of a documentary on HBO called Black and Missing which gave me all kinds of ideas. I watched it from an academic perspective versus an emotional one. I purposely watched it detached so I could see it from multiple angles and ask myself what resources I want to go to for statistics, publications, arguments, etc. I was thinking about the directions I wanted my research to go. There is already ample evidence of the problem. I just need to find concrete research of the problem and tie it to social work theory on a macro level and maybe show some historical context to show the root of the problem. It would probably behoove me to make recommendations for the solution and find credible research to back that up.
I feel much more confident that I can find material to write this paper and really write a good one too. This new found confidence is making me feel a whole lot better. I am ready to tackle what this program brings.