Flores Magón’s strategy of resistance

You will write a 400-word essay based on the prompt below. As described in the course syllabus, please have your essay “critically engage with the substance of the speaker’s talk using material from the course readings to support your argument”.

Prompt:

Dr. Heatherton in her (2014) piece on University of Radicalism analyzes the convergence of space between racial capitalism and counterinsurgency with a case study of revolutionaries at the Leavenworth Penitentiary between 1917 and 1922. Discuss Flores Magón’s strategy of resistance to the politics of exploitation and the inescapable fomentation of racial hatred, and the ways in which the ambition to internationalize this struggle is met with resistance today by racial capitalism.

Essay Requirements:

Word Count: 400 words minimum.
Word count includes the tile as well as the in-text citations, but excludes the header and bibliography.
Format:
Name AND Student ID # on page 1 of your essay.
Include page numbers and an essay title.
Double-spaced, 1-inch margins.
Include citations in a bibliography of works cited at the end of your essay.
Submission Procedure:
Upload to Canvas in “Assignment 2”.
Upload as either a Word document (.doc) OR a PDF (.pdf).
Essays uploaded in other formats will not be scored. If you don’t have Word and have Pages, it is your responsibility to convert your document to a PDF first before uploading.