POLI 435 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Charles Tilly, Racial Democracy, Brubaker

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 435
• Professor: Narendra Subramanian

Document Summary

Scope of course: deep inequalities between ethnic groups. Econ/ soc/ poli inequality: mem of domin. gr. = rights that subord. does not: diff. in rights in econ. activity, nature of cl. formation, political. Result partly of econ. and social context. Voting rights, access to bene ts handed by st. Varying in . over st. , soc. mvmts. , etc. Spec. races and castes: gr. w/ distinct cultures and aware of selves, races, relg. gr. , lang. gr. , tribes, castes. Seen as culturally distinct and unequal in status. Norms of endogamy (conjugal relations took place in gr. , act as norm is adhered to) Some ethnic groups cont. to have less r. that others. Problem of the color line (dubois: turn of 20th c. Dubois: the souls of black folk, central problem: problem of the colour line. Racial strati c"n. in us, similar forms of pigment based inequalities in. A: formation of group relations: durable inequality, gr.