POL SCI 61A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Majoritarianism, Angela Davis, Mccarthyism

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Explore the ideologies and motivation behind racial social movements in the us. Assess the costs and benefits of counter-institutional action. Little need for public support and mass mobilization. No need to worry about democratically impacts and have insulation of minority opinions. Court can"t enforce or implement its rulings. Any type of tactic that is challenging legal status quo without talking with elected officials/ judges. Doesn"t require same resources associated with other routes. Carry a series of physical, mental, emotional risks. Can create pathway to power for disenfranchised people. Black power movement spurs wave of identity-based and sociopolitical activism. Movement affirm value of marginalized identities while rejecting existing ideologies and the systems that uphold them. Solidarity with black power movement spurs creation of radical movements among asian and latino americans. In this era, we see rise in adoption of pan-ethnic identities! Student anti-war movements appropriate markers and method of racial power movements.

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