Brazil Trivia and Fun Facts Flashcards
What is progressive separatism?
Separating students or others by race for allegedly progressive purposes of mitigating harm
Which 3 intellectual influences have most shaped the Identity Synthesis?
Postmodernism, Critical Race Theory, post colonialism
What is the Identity Trap?
Identity Synthesis draws people in on the premise of addressing inequality, ensnares people based on their good intentions to be complicit in making the world a worse place by forcing them to be understood through their group identities.
How did Michel Foucault feel about grand narratives?
After being disillusioned with the hideousness of the USSR in the 1950s, Foucault rejected grand narratives and led the creation of post modernism: the rejection of objective truth, inherent superiority of any values over others, and belief in progress itself.
What did Foucault believe about violence?
That society was not truly becoming less violent, but rather more sophisticated in labeling and concealing its violence.
What did Foucault argue about where power lied?
He argued that it did not lie in top down institutions, but in the informal “discourses” that determine what and how people think.
What did Edward Said’s Orientalism argue?
That the ‘Orient’ was a construct in Western discourse that allowed Europe to exert systematic discipline over the region. In the post-colonial era, it was an answer to help former colonies avoid embracing distrusted Western traditions. He went further than Foucault in arguing that the goal of cultural and discourse analysis should be to help the oppressed
What is ‘strategic essentialism’?
Coined by G.C. Spivak, it is an argument that activists should organized around group identities for select political purposes.
What 6 key concepts does Mounk attribute to the Identity Synthesis?
rejection of objective truth; discourse analysis for political ends; strategic essentialism; pessimism about overcoming racism; race based public policy; intersectionality
Why is Tumblr relevant?
It had 500M blogs at its height and advanced two key ideas: standpoint epistemology and intersectionality.
How did coverage of racism change in 2010s?
NYT increased used of word “racism” by 700% between 2011 and 2019; WaPo by 1,000%; tenfold increase in terms “systemic racism”, “structural racism”, “institutional racism” in same period
How does the Great Awokening change the internal dynamics of the democratic party?
White liberals moved to the left of the typical Black voter
What is intersectionality?
It is the recognition that it is not only individual categories that have relevance, but the overlap between them. This concept was coined by Kimberlee Crenshaw with regards to the experience of black women, who were denied certain benefits that black men were afforded.
How has staffing changed at universities since the 1970s?
From 1976 to 2011, students doubled, but the growth in the size of the faculty increasing by just 76 percent. nonteaching staff grew by 139 percent and the number of other professional employees, such as student affairs officers and mental health counselors, grew by a staggering 366 percent.
How do professors break down between conservative and liberal? Administrators?
6x more likely to be liberal; 12x more likely to be liberal
How did tech employee activism change over time?
“In the first half of 2015, there were six instances of employee activism in tech firms reported in mainstream media. In the first half of 2020, there were 60.”
