The paper should be approximately 2500 – 3000 words. Please use cite sources carefully and appropriately.
As always, papers must be thesis-driven.
Must not be plagiarized or AI written
Much of the material we’ve discussed in class relates to popular struggles for justice, equality, and dignity. Think of struggles for Black, queer liberation, and anticolonial or indigenous liberation which have been presented in class. Select one example of a popular or justice struggle currently occurring or which has happened recently (no longer than 20 years). What issues were these struggles concerned with? How did imperialism, colonialism, or class power and inequality shape their work?
– The sources used have to be peer reviewed
Here’s 1 source to use https://monthlyreview.org/2017/01/01/policing-the-poor-in-detroit/
Here’s a book use chapter 1 and 2 https://files.libcom.org/files/Vitale%20-%20The%20End%20of%20Policing%20(Police)%20(2017).pdf
And find a third similar peer reviewed source
The general theme is going with was How does policing relate to the issues we’ve raised this semester? Socioeconomic class, for example, or expropriation, racialization etc.? Remember what Marx and Engels said about the bourgeois state?
Connect the essay with anthropology.
