POLI 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Primordialism, Oyo Empire, Cultural Appropriation
10 Dec 2018
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Ethnic/racial groups, divided by real differences in: Dynamics of real ethnic/racial groups drives politics. Essentialists are basically right around these things being real, but wrong about it being inherent, natural, and unchangeable. Expecting idea that identities between ethnicity and race are . Irish are white negroes , black are smoked irish By late-mid 19th century, 30-50 years later irish became more understood to be white . Also, new ethnic groups come into existence quickly. Were muslim, but came from variety of backgrounds of linguistics/languages. One of key things for primordialists that they share with essentialists, is that what actually is important in the division of ethnic groups, is that some group have some traits that are real, and others that are different. Groups that are culturally distinct, are the ones that are in conflict, or disagreement . Yoruba is people emerged of an empire, the oyo empire, early 19th century, in region now known as nigeria.
