Final Research Paper Topic: Colonial Legacies For your final research paper, yo
Final Research Paper Topic: Colonial Legacies
For your final research paper, you will be looking closely into the legacies of imperialism in one part of the world, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There are three stages to this project and the first stage was developing a thesis statement and outline (due Friday, 4/15 at 5pm). The second stage (due on May 13) was selecting a secondary source (i.e., an academic article) that supports your thesis and writing an analysis of that secondary source as part of the final paper. The final paper is due by 5pm on Friday, June 10th – papers will be submitted through Turnitin software at the tab labeled SUBMIT FINAL PAPERS HERE on Blackboard.
Paper Requirements:
Your final paper must meet the following requirements:
Be 6-10 pages typed and double spaced. Please use a standard 12-point font with regular 1-inch margins.
Papers must be in a .docx, .doc, or .pdf format (note that .pages documents are not readable to me and cannot be graded).
Papers must include a minimum of three citations in a Works Cited list at the end of the paper. Two of these sources must be secondary sources from the below “Articles for Final Paper” list, and one source must be a primary source (that is, produced in the time/place being discussed). Please have both “Secondary Sources” and “Primary Sources” sections in your Works Cited list.
Citations must be listed in MLA format. For guidance on proper citation format (including both in-text citations and for the Works Cited list) please click on the MLA tab on this library help page.
You must build your paper around one of these two theses – one of these two thesis statements should appear in your first paragraph:
OPTION 1: The actions being taken by the United States and China in the Democratic Republic of Congo today could be considered “neo-colonialism” because they closely mirror the actions of colonial European powers in Africa in the 19th-20th centuries.
Articles for final paper (Secondary sources)
While this is not a comprehensive list of all the sources you can use for this paper, it is a curated list of appropriate sources for use in this project. In the final paper, you must use and properly cite at least two secondary sources from this list and at least one primary source. Note that a primary source can be embedded within a secondary source, for example a direct quote from someone involved in the cobalt industry (cited in one of the below secondary sources) or an image/photo that you find in a book or textbook. JSTOR also has a good image search function.
1) “The Global Race to Mine the Metal of the Future” New York Times Daily podcast, March 18, 2022 (this was the original secondary source you heard, the link contains the podcast and a transcript of the podcast)
2) Niarchos, Nicolas. “The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush” The New Yorker, May 24, 2021
3) Sovacool, Benjamin. “When subterranean slavery supports sustainability transitions? Power, patriarchy, and child labor in artisanal Congolese cobalt mining,” The Extractive Industries and Societies. Vol. 8, Issue 1, March 2021 When-subterranean-slavery-supports-sustainability-trans_2021_The-Extractive-.pdf
4) Shinn, David H. “Africa: The United States and China Court the Continent.” Journal of International Affairs, vol. 62, no. 2, 2009, pp. 37–53
Africa the US and China Court the Continent.pdf
5) Lotta, Raymond. “China’s Rise in the World Economy.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 44, no. 8, 2009
Chinas rise in the world economy.pdf
6) Manning, Patrick. “Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Colonialism.” African Economic History Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 1974
Costs and benefits of colonialism in Africa.pdf
7) Udofia, O. E. “Imperialism in Africa: A Case of Multinational Corporations.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1984
Imperialism in Africa Multinational Corporations.pdf
8) Okon, Enoch Ndem, and Victor Ojakorotu. “Imperialism and Contemporary Africa: An Analysis of Continuity and Change.” Journal of African Foreign Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, 2018
Imperialism and Contemporary Africa.pdf
9) Sinclair, Maria. “Seizing the Means of Production: Cobalt and the Electric Vehicle Sector.” China’s Uneven High-Tech Drive: Implications for the United States, edited by Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 2020
Cobalt and the electric vehicle sector.pdf
10) Klosek, Kamil. The Corporate Scramble for Africa and Its Unintended Consequences. Peace Research Center Prague, 2019
Corporate scramble for Africa.pdf
If you want data about the Democratic Republic of Congo (or any other country), here are some online resources you can turn to for data:
United Nations Data (click on each heading to expand data): https://data.un.org/en/iso/cg.html
International Monetary Fund (IMF) particularly for economic data: https://www.imf.org/en/Data
BBC News Country Profile (for brief historical background): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13283212
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