Choose one of the following topics. Please use two additional sources beyond course readings. A variety of possible online sources are listed below each topic.
1. In recent years, human rights organizations have raised questions about the often-restricted legal and political rights of the increasing numbers of migrant workers in the world today. Analyze this problem and discuss the recommendations you would make for insuring the human rights of migrants.
Possible online sources:
Justicia4Migrant workers (especially the “Academic” sources under Resources)
Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (under Resources)
Migrant Worker Solidarity Network (under Resources)
Canadian Council for Refugees (under Migrant Workers)
2. Canada’s Official Multiculturalism policy has been seen as both an anti-racist policy and as an obstruction to genuine anti-racism. Discuss this debate and clarify on which side of it you fall, and why.
Possible online sources:
“The Role of Multiculturalism Policy in Addressing Social Inclusion Processes in Canada”
Tyler McCreary, “The myth of the multicultural patchwork,” Briarpatch, Sept. 1, 2009
Darren E. Lund, “Waking up the Neighbors”
3. Over the last decade or so, the term “global apartheid” has been used to describe racial and class divisions in our world. Discuss how appropriate you find this term to be, and why.
Possible online sources:
“Richest one percent will own more than all the rest by 2016,” https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-01-19/richest-1-will-own-more-all-rest-2016
“Global Apartheid, Foreign Policy and Human Rights”
www.coachtrainchange.com/global-apartheid.html
Gernot Kohler, “The Three Meanings of Global Apartheid”
Charles Mutasa, “Global Apartheid and African Debt Crisis
OR CHOOSE FROM
1. 1“The history of sports in North America is a history of racism and racist imagery.” Discuss. (Possible themes: Hip hop and the NBA; Muhammad Ali and professional boxing; Serena Williams and tennis; indigenous mascots and sports teams; Jackie Robinson and integration in baseball. Useful sources: Dave Zirin, Welcome to the Terrordome, A People’s History of Sports in the United States, What’s My Name Fool?, and his blogs at http://www.edgeofsports.com/bio.html; Alan Tomlinson, ed., The Sports Studies Reader, Section 6; Richard King, ed., The Native American Mascot Controversy) NOTE: online articles or videos from reputable voices like these are acceptable sources.
2. “The US ‘war on drugs’ is really a war on people of colour.” Discuss. (Possible themes: the prison-industrial complex; Useful sources: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow; Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag; Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?; Christian Parenti, Lockdown America.) NOTE: online articles or videos from reputable voices like these are acceptable sources.
3. How is it possible to have racism in a legally colour-bind society? What forms does such racism take?
PLEASE CHOOSE (1) ONE OF THE LISTED TOPICS AND DO A UNIVERSITY LEVEL RESEARCH PAPER ON THIS
-CLEAR AND TO THE POINT THESIS STATEMENT (PLEASE HIGHLIGHT THIS IN RED)
-VERY STRONG INTRODUCTORY AND CONCLUSION
– PLEASE ALLOW FOR BODY PAPRAGRAPHS TO EXPLAIN IN DEPTH AND SUPPORT POINTS IN YOUR THESIS.
-INCLUDE IN TEXT CITATIONS (BUT NOT TOO MANY) FROM THE SOURCES PROVIDED AS WELL AS FROM YOUR OWN RESEARCH. (SCHOLARLY ARTICLES/JOURNALS/BOOKS ONLY PLEASE)
-MLA FORMAT THORUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PAPER
-BIBLIOGRAPHY IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME
-PLEASE BE CLEAR AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
-GRAMMAR AND PUNCTION VERY IMPORTANT AS THIS IS A FINAL PAPER
-3000 WORDS (EXCLUDING BIBLIOGRAPHY)
-TIME NEW ROMAN 12 FT DOUBLE SPACED
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