POLI 435 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Langston Hughes, Dalit, System On A Chip
2 Oct 2016
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Poli 435: lecture 7 (cont"d) & lecture 8. Racial classification in us: caste in india & race in us. Caste & durable inequality: ff. interactions matter: formal & informal politics, classification, interest-formation, representation & poli- cy agendas. Sys. of power interact w/ sys. of classifications and w/ discourses (poverty, in- equality, stories told about why these occur: classification. Matters in 2 ways: influences representation. Who rep the interest of particular ppl/ portrayals of gr. and their qualities. Organizations matter (tilly ref. : like social mvmts, interest groups, political parties matter. Ideas they mobilize influence classification schemes (which axes ppl are counted, and the boundaries in b/w: influences interest of groups. What kind of social system best serves interests: organizations. Dispositions the way stories are told in schools/neighbourhoods/by social movements can make a diff. to how cert. groups perceive selves. Exterior categories & transformative projects: dominant classification schemes > axes of transformative politics (eg. dalit)
