The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This essay explores the purpose and function of the police in a modern state. It draws mainly from the ideas put forth by Walter Benjamin in his 1921 essay, Critique of Violence, and focuses exclusively on the events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. By applying political theory to concrete events, it attempts to expose the mechanics of capitalist state repression as presented in its current form. Central themes are police violence, state repression, popular sovereignty and political resistance. It is the intention of this piece of writing that it be used for practical purposes, to serve as a foundation on which the public can more easily critique the American political system. We must understand racist police violence in order to resist it. </p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Political Science
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Milnor, Menemsha P.S.
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Susan Buck-Morss
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1057
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-2071