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Research Topic Ideas

Africana and Black Studies Topics

Afrofuturism
Apartheid
Bedouin culture
Black Power movement
Burundi
Cultural appropriation
Effectiveness of NGOs
Egyptian revolution
Freedom Summer
Historically black colleges
Jasmine Revolution
Jim Crow
Liberia
Marcus Garvey
Mau Mau
Migrant crisis
Nationalism in Africa
Nollywood
Racial identity in Caribbean
Racial identity in South Africa
Revolutions of 1960s
Segregation
Shirley Chisholm
South Sudan
Pan African movement
Post-colonial unrest
Trevor Noah
Tropical disease eradication
Warrior dance
White-washing in the media

International Studies

African Union
Cultural appropriation
Democratization
Effectiveness of NGOs
Effectiveness of UN
European Union
Failed states
Global economy
Globalization
Indigenous culture protection
League of Nations
Migrant crisis
Millennium Development Goals
OPEC
Paris Agreement
South China Sea
Stateless persons
Terrorism
United States foreign policy
Wilsonianism

Women's & Gender Studies Topics

Abortion rights
Benevolent sexism
Camp
Female genital mutilation
"Femicide"
Femme invisibility
First-wave feminism
Gamergate
Gender stereotypes
Gender-neutral language
Glass ceiling
Guerilla Girls
Heterosexual transvestites
High heels
Homosexuals in military
Partial-birth abortion
Polysexual
Radical feminism
Same-sex adoption rights
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex parenting
Sodomy laws
Stereotypes
Transgender
Transsexuals
Women in combat
Women in non-traditional roles
Women in WWII
Women's suffrage