POLI 435- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Caste in postcolonial india & race in usa. Caste in south asia caste in postcolonial society. Caste in india & race in usa: preliminary comparison. Political mobilization caste associations, political parties caste mobilization & inequality. Official recognition preferential policies: notionally temporary untouchability & caste discrimination illegal special protection of lower caste civil rights. Caste & dominance caste still axis of social dominance poverty, segregation, discrimination, repression changes in mentalities & power. Relational approach to durable poverty & inequality boundary-marking & exclusion (tilly, weber) Tilly: boundary-marking along id lines: caste, ethnicity, gender. How policies are defined (mega-policies, larger direction of policies) Countries in such a way that int. of the poo. Various aspects of capitalist accumulation contribute to perpetuation of poverty. For initial accumulation of capital by annexing resources that were not commoditie commodities) Promoted in forest areas (ref. racialized slavery, aboltionin ame. British need to find alt. , cheap way to grow sugar cane and cotton.
