Politics, society and identity - Identity politics - Race and ethnicity
3 important questions on Politics, society and identity - Identity politics - Race and ethnicity
How has racialism been kept alive?
Through campaigns about immigration (British National Party, Le Pen's National Rally).
Black consciousness movements?
Form of struggle for civil rights.
- Martin Luther King
- National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- Black Lives Matter.
- Martin Luther King
- National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
- Black Lives Matter.
The rise of ethnic consciousness has by no means occured only in the West. So how can ethnic rivalry be understood?
Its sometimes seen as an endemic feature of African and Asian politics, but it better understood as a phenomenon linked to colonialism.
The divide-and-rule policies of the colonial period often bequeathed to many newly independent 'nations' a legacy of bitterness and resentment (subsequently oftnen exacerbated by the attempts of majority ethnic groups to consolidate their dominance under the guise of nation-building).
The divide-and-rule policies of the colonial period often bequeathed to many newly independent 'nations' a legacy of bitterness and resentment (subsequently oftnen exacerbated by the attempts of majority ethnic groups to consolidate their dominance under the guise of nation-building).
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