The Independent Study requirement at Wooster provides
an opportunity for students to pursue in depth a topic of
their own choosing, with the one-on-one guidance of a
faculty member. Black studies opens exciting avenues for
student research in a wide variety of areas. For example, Sara
Kennedy ’03, a double major in women’s studies and black
studies, wrote That’s Just Her Magic: An Investigation of Black
Women’s Experiences in the Kitchen, while Brooke Roi’elle
McKay Lockett ’02 studied “Equal Justice by No Means
Guaranteed Under the Law”: Racial Bias, Gender
Discrimination, and Incarceration of African-American
Men, Women and Juveniles.
