MC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Racial Equality, Institutional Racism, National Urban League

• School: MSU
• Department: James Madison College
• Course: MC 111
• Professor: Rashida Harrison

Document Summary

Democratic dilemmas- pursuing racial equality in a post racial american order. Post world war ii context: great migration. The white terrorism of the south in combination with new economic opportunities for black people (the shift from outdoor labor to manufacturing work: civil rights and black power movements. Segregation still existed in the north and the concentration of black people in separate communities gave way for opportunities to form coalition for black political interest. Anti-colonial movements increased rebellion among colonial nations towards the countries which rules them: expanded black middle class. Solutions: social/ economic uplift vs civil rights. Independent vs coalition politics: race-based vs race-neutral policy, social gospel vs prosperity gospel, respectability politics. Black middle class ideology- (cid:862)e(cid:395)uated pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) . (cid:449)hite a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:863) (102) Black elites and public philosophy- (cid:862)a so(cid:272)ial poli(cid:272)y . si(cid:374)gle pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)thood(cid:863) (105) Politics of the black church- the church plays a very important role in black politics.