If applying a particular type of literary theory to your reading of Home feels too abstract or challenging, then you can focus your research on other areas that would help you to unpack key themes in the novel; for example, find information about how black veterans of the Korean War were integrated back into American society or research eugenics and medical experiments performed on African Americans in the time period when Home is set. Another option would be to combine research into both race and economic class in the 1950s – what were (are still?) hurdles to upward mobility for African Americans at that time; how did gender affect those opportunities?