Please answer ONE of the following questions in a polished essay of approximately 1800 words i.e. about 6 double-spaced pages, size 12 font (preferably Times New Roman) with standard one-inch margins. You should be able to answer the question using the course readings and lecture notes, although you are welcome to supplement these with additional sources and/or country-specific knowledge or experience. Your essay be approximately 6 double-spaced pages, plus an attached list of references (bibliography).
Compare and contrast the distinctive social and political construction of ethnic and racial identities in South Africa and the United States? In what ways is South Africa’s history of white supremacy and racial exclusion similar to that of the United States? In what ways is it different? What factors account for differences? (This is the one I’ll be answering.
Sources to include:
Your essay should engage directly with at least three of the following sources:
Blay, Yaba (2021). One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race. (Boston: Beacon Press).
Hun, Mala (2004). “From ‘Racial Democracy’ to Affirmative Action: Changing State Policy on Race in Brazil,” Latin American Research Review; 39(1), 60-89.
Kendi, Ibram X. (2017). Stamped from the Beginning: The Definite History of Racist Ideas
in America. (New York: Nation Books).
Marx, Anthony (1996). “Race-Making and the Nation-State,” World Politics, 48(1): 180-208.
Page, Joseph A. (1995). The Brazilians. (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley).
Williams, Eric (1994/1944). Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill and London:
University
of North Carolina Press).
Worden, Nigel (2007). The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers).
- Make sure to engage with the course readings, and ciate your sources appropriately.
- Cite your sources: Please use parenthetical reference citations, and include list of references at the end. Citations are not required if you are presenting “general knowledge”. You may use APA citations https://www.mendeley.com/guides/apa-citation; guide/#I Ref List)
Or
Chicago
author-date citations,
(https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html) but please do not use Chicago-style footnotes, https://www.scribbr.com/chicago:
style/footnotes/). Please include page numbers with your citations, when citing specific facts or evidence (e.g. Holden 2007, 101). Page numbers are not required if you are summarizing or discussing the main argument of a book or article.
Make sure to include a bibliography at the end of the paper. Please make sure that the bibliography is correctly formatted (see the list of sources on p. 3).
- If you quote any sources verbatim (and you are encouraged to do this), make sure to use quotations. And provide a page number with your reference.
One drop rule would be one book to site as well I believe, and all things must come from the book.
If you need any of these texts I can send you the pages I have in the book, thank you!