[POLI 231] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (100 pages long)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 231
• Professor: Victor Muniz- Fraticelli

Document Summary

Malcolm x did not fit directly into civil disobedience: more on terms of liberation. Two figures often posed against each other the two developments of jim crow: used to contrast, often not conceptually correct. Grew up in segregated south, with some authority in the black church. Michigan (north) in integrated schools (not welcome) More radical, pernicious sympathy for the cause. Parallels to a previous pair: washington and dubois. Both wanted and had a vision for emancipation and egalitarian. Washington: born a slave, self-educated a(cid:374)d spo(cid:374)sors educatio(cid:374), (cid:862)(cid:374)a (cid:448)e(cid:863), a calculated attribute to north/south, not threatening to political order: emancipation through independent developing industry, economically self- sufficient. Idea from collective independent choose leaders (the 10%) that would slowly enter into relative equality. Both are movements of resistance, and not passivity. Only passivity if we ignore the northern moderates. Civil disobedience is easier to understand when we can contrast it. Both aimed for public institutional change, eg. in political structure.