Cultural pluralism exam

Competitive Racism

(new Racism(America)). de facto (societal)

Varieties of Cultural Pluralism

1. Race (least primordial) tells alsmost nothing about cultural, racism= ideology of supremacy, pregudice, discrimination. Explicit= when the state is racist (institutional racism) Implicit= pockets of racism (KKK). 2. Ethnicity: common decent, common language, common history, common traditions/values. 3. Caste 4. religion: identity/world view/ faith, therauda Buddhism

Miles

1. Racism as a concept, 2. as ideology (agrees more with this) practices and processes/consequences. character, culture, tempermint can be determined by your race. actions, inaction, silences. (doesn't believe this)

assimilation

The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group: "Waves of immigrants have been assimilated into the American culture."

Fascism

an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. most extreme form of nationalism disenchantment with present, going back to what made the nation great in the first place, leading to scape goating. Heterophobia (fear and hatred of the perceived other. Glorification of the state (state power trumps all) anti-communism, anti-liberal (power originated from the individual interest of the individual are more important than the interest of the community). Anti-capitalsim. National Socialism, anti-rational tend to celebrate myths and symbol before enlightenment.

incorporation

becoming a part of something, a form of assimilation (accept new culture and forget about old culture) (France)

Tribalism

benefits opportunist politicians, Keeping them against each other to weaken them, identity can be used in favor of political interests, divide people, and divert people from their real social problems.

mobilization of Grievances

communal interests, political organization, cultural entrepreneurs, inequalities differential, discrimination.

cultural pluralism

is a term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, and their values and practices are accepted by the wider culture provided they are consistent with the laws and values of the wider society.

Primordialism

is the argument which contends that nations are ancient, natural phenomena. Can be traced philosophically to the ideas of German Romanticism, particularly in the works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Johann Gottfried Herder. Emphasizes common decent (history), common decent/lineage, common history, common traditions, common destiny.

marginalization

is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society. It is a term used widely in Europe and was first used in France. It is used across disciplines including education, sociology, psychology, politics and economics.

Communal Solidarity

is unity (as of a group or class) which produces or is based on unities of interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies. It refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one.

constructivism

social construction of identitys, identies are imagened or invented, rituals, Language, dress code, music, and history, always in the process of construction and deconstruction

new nation

vertical. demotic ethnies, nationalism created the nation, heterogeneous subjects, cultural entrepreneurs (IRISH)

code racism

Angry white male, whites see lacks more as a threat than before, confederate flag, state rights, welfare queens, biology (darwinism) ideology (supremecy) theology, institutional (laws), social/societal.

Differention

Division (one group dividing into two) Proliferation (one group dividing into multiple groups.

Integrationist

Du Bois (NAACP, Double self (twoness) advocate for black nationalism. , MLK, multiracial, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T. Washington (pursue education for blacks).

restrictive Racism

Jim Crow, Dejur (institutional)

old nations

Lateral/aristocratic ethnics, nations before nationalism, homogeneous ethnic core, expanded with bureaucratic incorporation. nation civic, ethnic components, nation is about community of history/ destiny. (english)

Imagined community

Nation is imagined because it is limited (teritorialized, culture/community). Nation is sovereign (in charge of their own destiny, self determination, continuation (nation is immortal))

Seperatist

Stakely Cormicheal, Black panther movement, SNCC (student non violent coordinating committee) Millitant, most feared black activist. Marcus Garvey, emphasized racial purity, nationalism, economic advanced for blacks, return to Africa. Black Panther PAC Uni-racial a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.

Print capitalism

Print technology made it possible for people to form new communities. Is a theory underlying the concept of a nation, as a group that forms an imagined community, that emerges with a common language and discourse that is generated from the use of the printing press, proliferated by a capitalist marketplace.

Wellman

Racism involves modern prejudices/beliefs. racism is about defending a system that ascribes based on race, threat (the loss of privilege triggers racism) sentiment.

Cultural Roots of Nationalism

Religious Community: individual, death/immortality, beliefs, affect, interest. Nation: individual, death/immortality, beliefs, affect, interest.

New racist white

Separatist/supremacist white nationalist white nationalism, self determination broader audience reservation of "white america" purtitism multiculturalism is a direct threat.

Marx Mobalization

South -slavery/segregation -accomodationist/integrationist -peaceful disobedience -civil rights -appealed to america -sit ins boycotts freedom - rides/ marches North -discrimination/ economic deprivation -separatism -militant/violence (black panther) - black power -questioned america - riots/uprisings.

Old Racist Whites

Supremacist white supremecist racial superiority narrow audience preservation of "white america" segregation KKK

Amalgamation

U.S (accept new culture, but can maintain old culture) the action, process, or result of combining or uniting. A branch of assimilation. (Belgium)

Fundamentalism

a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.

instrumentalism

a pragmatic philosophical approach that regards an activity (such as science, law, or education) chiefly as an instrument or tool for some practical purpose, rather than in more absolute or ideal terms, in particular. Politicized (KKK/BLM). Identities are politicized/mobalized, centrality of material interests, cultural entrepreneurs.