POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: One-Drop Rule, Bloc Québécois, Miscegenation
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Race and gender: there is more genetic diversity among caucasians than within africans, our division of different races has no correlation with genetics, race does not exist scientifically. Marx turns to economic explanations of race: people were willing to forgo economic benefits to maintain racial segregation, state policy establishes the boundaries of categories and the existence of race in any country. In u. s and south africa, wars were initiated due to the status of africans: would blacks get the vote? . Inclusions is always accompanied by exclusion: race was invented for the purpose of justifying exclusion. Mala htun: female mps in rwanda, the first country to have a majority of women in parliament. It"s not enough to be represented by someone who has your best interest at heart: can only be represented by someone who has experienced her societal history = theory representation.
