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| Two types of freedoms have remained relevant for African Americans |
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1. Rejection of Sovereignal Freedom (the notion that one person or group should have the freedom to impose their will on another without regard to the rights of the other
2. Embracing Collective Deliverance (the liberation of a group from external control - from captivity, slavery or oppression) |
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| that A has power over B to the extent that A can affect B’s behavior or get B to do something B otherwise would not do |
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predicts that when cultures of different groups come into contact, their relations go through 4 phases: contact, conflict, accommodation, assimilation
CRITIQUE: - Assumes there is a gradual process (too big of an assumption) – African American history is not analogous to other immigrant groups. |
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| similar to the situation that exists between a colonial power (dominant nation) and the colonized (weaker nation); whites have all the power and control, even when decisions seem to be made by blacks; black culture is undermined and replaced with mainstream culture CRITIQUE: the ability of the black colony to mobilize its resources is undermined by the destruction of its cultural base |
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| The Dominant-Subordinate Group Model |
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| Whites are dominant and must go through elaborate measures to maintain its dominance CRITIQUE: failure to provide a basis for identifying and understanding the material basis, the economic elements of the black problem |
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| Harris’s Alternative Formulation |
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- African American condition is not the same as colonized subjects
- Corporate Capitalists v Petty Capitalist Sectors
o Corporate capitalists live comfortably
o Petty capitalists- many African Americans – due to the structure of American economy |
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o The predication of decision and policies on consideration of race for the purpose of subordinating a racial group and maintaining control over it
o Carmichael and Hamilton’s two forms of Racism:
Individual and Institutional |
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| Institutionalized belief that Africans are inherently an inferior people |
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- Deeply religious
- Calling to take action
- Over 40 slaves involved
- At least 55 Whites killed
- Nat Turner was tried and killed |
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- “Blacks had no rights which the white man was bound to respect”
- Blacks could not sue in federal court because they had no rights |
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o Developed to try to deal with social welfare issues blacks would experience after emancipation
o General O.O. Howard was the leader of this |
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| South able deny blacks the right to vote by selecting candidate in primaries |
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| Great Migration of Blacks |
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| Black vote was courted in the North - so they moved up North |
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| Brown v Board of Education |
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1954
o Overruled “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
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| o Outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public |
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| Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. |
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| Post Reconstruction (after government left the south) states passed bogus laws and arrested blacks and made them work for their crime. Sheriffs would lease prisoners (blacks) out to people or corporations and made them work. |
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| Two Federal Programs that accelerated suburban development |
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Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Loans
Veteran Administration (VA) Loans |
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| Civil Rights Act of 1968 Title VIII |
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(Fair Housing Act)
o Outlawed racial discrimination in housing |
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| Kerner Commission Report (1968) |
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o Two Worlds: one black, one white – separate but unequal
o Ghetto enrichment advocated – integration |
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Wealth: The Hidden Cost of Being African American
Thomas Shapiro three major points |
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1. Family inheritance racial discrimination in crucial areas like home ownership are making blacks worse
2. These inheritances frequently amount to transformative asset
3. The way families use head-start assets to transform their own lives |
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| The New Jim Crow: Criminal Justice System |
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| -The War on Drugs is the primary cause of the prison explosion in the US (crack v cocaine) |
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| - Comprised of coherent sets of assumptions about the nature of political reality and the political ideals to be pursued |
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| blames the individual or group for poverty and deprivation not the system. |
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| Individualism, Equality, and Freedom |
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| Implicit Association Test (IAT) |
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| designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory. |
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| a worldview readily found in the population including set of ideas and values that cohere, that are used publicly to justify political stances, and that shape and are shaped by our society |
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| places where black ideologies are constructed (i.e.barber shop). Necessary because blacks were initially excluded from public discussion arenas |
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o Strong Central Government
o Activism is necessary
o Full Equality
o Racial Uplift
o Black Autonomy |
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o Racial Uplift through self-help
o Racism is not the reason Blacks are disadvantaged
o Winning “true equality”
o The Evil State – government won’t help anyway
o Need for Moral Leadership
o Racial Authenticity is detrimental
- Contrasts with IBD Wells and W.E.B DuBois |
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| idea that Blacks are “encouraged from birth to fixate upon remnants of racism and resolutely downplay all signs of its demise” |
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| encourages black Americans to conceive of black people as an unofficial sovereign entity, within which the rules of other Americans are expected to follow are suspended out of a belief that our victimhood renders us morally exempt from them |
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| Cult of Anti-Intellectualism |
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| a general sense in much of the black community that to dwell upon books is of another world, specifically a white one |
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| cognitive component of political culture |
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| knowledge and beliefs about political reality |
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| affective component of political culture |
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| feelings with respect to politics, political leaders and institutions |
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| trust in government (A.A. polarizing trust); responsiveness |
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| 3 differences between Black and White |
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o 1. Blacks are more alienated or distrustful of American institutions and more distrustful of the motives of Americans
o 2. Blacks are more religious than whites
o 3. Blacks are more liberal than Whites, especially where economic issues are concerned |
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| ongoing process by which individuals acquire these attitudes, values and beliefs |
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| the belief by a black individual that what happens to a group as a whole is relevant to their own life |
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| the concept that as long as African Americans' life chances are powerfully shaped by their race, it is efficient for individual African-Americans to use their perceptions of the interest of African-Americans as a group, as a proxy for their own interes |
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| Divide between those who have internet access and those who do not |
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| Mainstream Political Knowledge Scale |
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o Party Control of the House of Reps.
o Veto override percent
o Party Ideological Location
o Judicial Review- who determines if a law is constitution
o Identifying the Vice President |
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