SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Acculturation, Neocolonialism, Patriot Act
Week 10- globalization and race
Global and regional responses
• Ginsburg is interested in tackling anti-racism at the institutional level
o How the UN can be used as a tool to combat racism
• ICERD (international convention of all forms of racial discrimination)
o Pursue racism legally
• Durban 2001 brought racism to the global forefront at the start of this century
o USA and European nations blocked reparation for slavery
o Israel and US blocked notion of Israeli aggression towards Palestinians as racist
o India blocked notion of caste-based discrimination as racist
Future trends
• In all western countries
o 1. There has been a shift toward a deeper multiculturalism and way from strong
assimilations
o 2. Strengthening of racialized, exclusionary immigration and asylum policies
o 3. Racism continues to be structurally endemic within rich states of west
• “holte 2002 adoates thik reforis
o Managing future global race relations
o Shift the imitative to public management so that state, sub-state and supra-state
laws and institutions take firm hold of the steering wheel and harness the forces
of globalization
Huntington: clash of civilization
• Great division among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural,
not ideological or economic
• Winant thinks within countries, there is going to be ethnicity clashes
o Clashes within civilizations, within cultures
• Clashes will stem from racial projects in the west
• Clash ithi a iilizatio that ais to eert gloal hegeoi rule ersus…
Global effects of 9/11
• Widespread fear of terrorism and xenophobia
• Resurgence reactionary nationalism anchored on narratives of fortress America
• Racially based identification of the enemy as Arab, Arab Americans and Muslims in
general
o Even those whether Muslim or not, who resemble Arabs
• The Durban conference
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Document Summary
Global and regional responses: ginsburg is interested in tackling anti-racism at the institutional level, how the un can be used as a tool to combat racism. Icerd (international convention of all forms of racial discrimination: pursue racism legally, durban 2001 brought racism to the global forefront at the start of this century, usa and european nations blocked reparation for slavery. Israel and us blocked notion of israeli aggression towards palestinians as racist. India blocked notion of caste-based discrimination as racist. There has been a shift toward a deeper multiculturalism and way from strong assimilations: 2. Strengthening of racialized, exclusionary immigration and asylum policies: 3. Go(cid:448)"t poli(cid:272)ies a(cid:374)d ra(cid:272)e: special registration program, operation liberty shield, blanket detention order of 2003, overwhelmingly negative effects of muslims, do(cid:374)ald tru(cid:373)p"s e(cid:454)e(cid:272)uti(cid:448)e order (cid:271)a(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g musli(cid:373)s. Bringing back race into global focus winant: 1. Racial globalization: ok to through away fortresses, multiculturalism, 2. Greed kills: end exploitation, get rid of tncs and mncs, 3.
