In this essay, use the readings and films featuring Grace Lee Boggs and Manuel Castells to discuss the terms “Social Movements” and “Revolution.” Compare and contrast what each offers as their definition and the purpose of these ideas. Are they the same thing according to each author? Why or why not? What do Boggs and Castells each offer as lessons learned from the past? What do they see as prospects for the future? How do movements succeed or fail at getting us there? What is necessary, do they each argue, to make a “new” and “just” world? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asks in 1967, “Where Do We Go From Here?” Each author here offers some insight into this, following recent movements, such as Occupy Wall Street and other movements around the globe. How do Castells and Boggs answer this question for the 21st Century?
The majority (2/3rds) of your paper should be your comparing and contrasting and addressing these questions. In final portion of your paper, you may offer your own insights concerning Social Movements, Revolution, and what would be necessary to make a “new” and “just” world. Still, this isn’t just a place to offer your opinion. Your insights should be supporting, refuting, or opening new possibilities based on your readings of these texts and videos. In other words, you must show me that you understand what each person is arguing or proposing, with evidence from both the written texts and films, appropriately citing each when you are using them. Your voice should be clear in the paper, but you need to back up your statements with the texts themselves.
Your paper should be 1200 words in length, typed, double-spaced, and one-inch margins.
Your paper should have a title and both an introduction that includes a topic sentence or theses statement and a concluding paragraph.
You should use proper citation techniques for in-text citation, using APA, MLA or Chicago Manual of Style citation style for anytime you use an idea or information that is from a source other than your head. You should include page numbers as often as possible when quoting and when paraphrasing from an author’s text. At the end of the paper you should have a Work Cited section that lists in proper order all sources cited in your paper. Each article or film should be a separate entry on your work cited page. Articles should considered articles or parts of an edited book or anthology and documented accordingly.