SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Afro-Latin Americans, Tutsi, Economic Collapse

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 248
• Professor: Rebekah Burroway

Document Summary

Watch video: surviving genocide: how does poverty play a role, not a high tech war. Is hispanic a racial category: ethnic b/c you could be black hispanic, etc. 1994 genocide in rwanda: at least 800,000 killed in 100 days, most efficient mass killing since atomic bombings, high tech weapons? nope. Revolution of 1959: hutus 85%, tutus 14%, minorities 1, hutu activist beaten by tutsi activists > violence spread, hutus started killing tutsis, burn houses. Yet, they still asks for democracy: belgian colonel allied with hutus in name of democracy and held elections, more pessimistic story: tutsis wanted independence and belgians thought hutus would be easier to control. Soc 248, class 16 + 17: hutus come to power: replacement of one racial dictatorship with another, masquerading as democracy. Genocide of 1959: 1990: rwandan patriotic front (tutsi army from refugee camps) invaded rwanda, 1994: assassination of president (who did it?)