01:050:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Universal Negro Improvement Association And African Communities League, Eurocentrism, Black Separatism
5 Oct 2018
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A large aggregate of communities and individuals of common descent a political state . A single ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation". Concept of nation in the us has been bound with race and racial ideologies. Nationalism has depended on territory to become a homeland. Nation building and imperialism go hand in hand. Nations are fictitious given solidity through political juridical processes that transform them into material practices, including population control , immigration restriction and curtailment, and full-scale genocide. As a materialized fiction national belonging may this be understood as a structure of feeling weinbum (177) Concepts of liberty and democracy have been limited to minority groups. Imagined communities is his most famous work. Argued that nations arose out of the age of revolution (french and american) Role of technology in nation-building : printing press. Almost every year un admits new members. And many old nations" once thought fully consolidated, find themselves challenged by sub-nationalsoms within their borders (3)
