SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Participatory Democracy, Global Apartheid, New Imperialism
Week 10- globalization and race
Imperialism and globalized racialization
• Northern countries keep poorer countries subjugated
• Globalization has changed from an overt stand to covert
• Maintaining the status quo
• Western countries have a lot of military power
o America uses its military power to assert their dominance
Globalization as racial
• According to Winant, north south issues have racial characteristics
o Disparities in status and life hane etween the world’s rih and poor regions
o Disparities between global north and south
Globalization as racialized social structure
• Winant
o Globalization and decolonization did not chart the course of the south as self-
determined, independent, democratic, even socialist, free nations
• Instead, globalization is imperialism in disguise
• Winant argues that imperialism shifted from overt tactics to and now persists in the
south through
o Political subjugation
o Economic dependence
o Cultural dependence
North south and west east axis
• Gulf wars created global conflicts demarcated by race and class
o Arabs vs the rest of us
New imperialism: global hegemonic and democratic projects
• Winant
o Global hegemonic and global democratic projects are practices of the new
imperialism
• Global hegemonic project
o Quest by US to reaffirm its sociopolitical dominance globally
o Continue economic exploitation
• Global democratic project
o Quest to bring participatory democracy to the global south and east
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
