ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nationstates, Burke Act, Jewish Question
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Lecture 5. 1: race & nation-state: comparative foundations in france, usa, Brazil: nation-building and national membership, the emergence of independent nation-states from the american colonies. => a world-stage of nation-building: a comparative and competitive process. => key issue: how to make a national population of citizens from a colonial one of subjects. How to incorporate the populations that the various nation-states inherited (so to speak) from the colonial enterprises: citizenship. - a type of belonging, a membership in a political community. = a norm of association defined by membership in a political community, in which the formal attribution of belonging or incorporation entails a substantive distribution of whatever prerogatives and obligations attach to membership (e. g. rights, duties, resources, and practices). Primarily refers to the state, but could be anything university, organization, any political community. Formal attribution of belonging or incorporation entails a substantive distribution of whatever prerogatives and obligations attach to membership (rights, duties, resources, and practices)