Race and Ethnicity / Ethnic relations in canada Flashcards
what is the primordialism approach to ethnicity
seeing a community as natural, eternal, and organic (works as one system)
seeing a community like a living body so you have to be born into it
you are either apart of the community or not
the economic and political exploitation of a weaker country or people by a stronger one
colonialism
colonialism of one people by another within a single country
internal colonialism
when colonizers use the local dominant group to subjugate the rest of the population
indirect rule
a theoretical framework that analyzes the destructive impact of colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized
anti-colonialism/post-colonialism
what did Franz Fanon and Albert Memmi do?
they studied the negative effects of colonization
as well were the first people to have post colonial views
Instrumentalism
focuses on emerging ethnicity rather that on long established ethnic characteristics
acknowledges that elites can mobilize others who identify with them ethnically
people can be made aware of their nation
the view that ethnicity is constructed by individuals for varying social purposes
social constructivism
who are the groups involved in the rwandan genocide
tutsi - minority, took care of farm animals
hutu - disenfranchised minority, farmers
Batwa/Twa
vertical mosaic, who coined the term
john porter
people with the most power and privilige are born of british religion
like the melting pot theory just that there is a hierarchy