Black Lives Matter.
Essentially your question is: How can we understand/analyze the Black Lives Matter movement from the perspective of your chosen theory/theorist (s)?
This is your opportunity to practice applying theory to an actual empirical case.
ESSAY 1600 words. essay that draws on the bellow readings that uses theory to analyze this newspaper .
The purpose of this essay is to apply theory to an empirical case, in this case the “data” is that which is found in the newspaper articles. So treat the article as the data which will be analyzed using the theoretical framework of your choice, as long as it draws specifically on the readings bellow, you have the option of instead using the novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini as the “source” for this essay. In this case the events of the novel and their impacts on the characters can be analyzed using the theoretical framework of your choice, as long as it draws specifically on the readings required in the readings bellow.
Topic: Black Lives Matter
Sources: http://blacklivesmatter.com/ This is your primary source. You should read and draw on the main sections Who We Are and What We Believe in your essay.
The second source is http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com/ the Black Lives Matter Syllabus of Professor Frank Leon Roberts. You can use any resources from that website to draw on for “data” examples to support your argument. There are news items, videos, writings. You do not need to use or draw on ALL of them, you can choose anything you find useful to support your argument.
Objective: Use the “data” from your sources to analyse the Black Lives Matter Movement through any of the theoretical lenses/frameworks you have studied this term. While you can draw on more than one theorist or framework, remember that you are striving for a strong coherent essay, so it might be more effective to carefully choose and limit the scope of your theoretical framework. The same goes for the data, you should focus on one or two aspects of the movement for your essay, rather than trying to cover all of them.
Essentially your question is: How can we understand/analyze the Black Lives Matter movement from the perspective of your chosen theory/theorist (s)?
This is your opportunity to practice applying theory to an actual empirical case.
Sources:
http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com/
: http://blacklivesmatter.com/
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