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| sovereignal or organic freedom |
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| the notion that one person or group should have the freedom to impose their will on another without regard to the rights of the other |
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| the liberation of a group from external control - from captivity, slavery or oppression |
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| the ability of "A" to make "B" do something that "B" would have preferred not to do |
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| Mack Jones' definition of black politics |
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| essentially a power struggle between blacks and whites, with the latter trying to maintain their subordinate position vis a vis the former |
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| the predication of decisions and policies on considerations of race for the purpose of subordinating a racial group and maintaining control over it |
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| racism justified on the basis of the institutionalized belief that Africans are inherently inferior |
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| one person takes into consideration the race of another to subordinate, control, or otherwise discriminate against the individual |
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| when the normal and accepted patterns and practices of a society's institutions have the effect or consequence of subordinating or discriminating against an individual or group on the basis of race |
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| all groups have an opportunity to participate in the American system CRITIQUE: the African American struggle has been different from that of European immigrants |
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| Park's race relations cycle |
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| predicts that when cultures of different groups come into contact, their relations go through 4 phases: contact, conflict, accommodation, assimilation |
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| Parson's citizenship political development |
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| struggle for basic legal rights, fight for political participation, the drive to gain social and political rights that would allow blacks equality in America |
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| similar to the situation that exists between a colonial power (dominant nation) and the colonized (weaker nation); whites have all the power and control, even when decisions seem to be made by blacks; black culture is undermined and replaced with mainstream culture CRITIQUE: the ability of the black colony to mobilize its resources is undermined by the destruction of its cultural base |
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| dominant-subordinate group model |
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| Whites are dominant and must go through elaborate measures to maintain its dominance CRITIQUE: failure to provide a basis for identifying and understanding the material basis, the economic elements of the black problem |
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| colonial model is flawed in its economic reasoning CRITIQUE: |
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| three elements that explain the economic status of blacks |
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| the basic structure of the American economy; the capitalist ideology conditioned by white supremacy; understanding that the structure, laws, and racist ideology come together to determine the life chances of blacks |
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| includes social security payments, private retirement pensions, unemployment compensation and welfare payments; distributed by the government to people experiencing financial difficulty (reflects the absence of wealth and political potential) |
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| idea that blacks are encouraged from birth to fixate upon remnants of racism and resolutely downplay all signs of demise |
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| encourages black Americans to conceive of black people as an unofficial sovereign entity, within which the rules of other Americans are expected to follow are suspended out of a belief that our victimhood renders us morally exempt from them |
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| cult of anti-intellectualism |
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| a general sense in much of the black community that to dwell upon books is of another world, specifically a white one |
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| Dawson's view of ideology |
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| a world view readily found in the population, including sets of ideas and values that cohere, that are used publicly to justify political stances and that share and are shaped by society |
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| psychological or subjective orientations towards politics or the individual's attitudes, beliefs and values about politics and the political system |
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| cognitive component of political culture |
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| knowledge and beliefs about political reality |
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| affective component of political culture |
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| feelings with respect to politics, political leaders and institutions |
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| one's commitment to political values and ideas |
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| black political consciousness |
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| the supporting of African American candidates, organizing black political parties, holding state and national political conventions and forming political caucuses and leagues |
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| contentiousness and differences of opinion on political matters |
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| ongoing process by which individuals acquire these attitudes, values and beliefs, or the process of political learning |
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| opinions held by private persons which governments find it prudent to heed |
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| the belief by a black individual that what happens to a group as a whole is relevant to their own life |
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| the concept that as long as African Americans' life chances are powerfully shaped by their race, it is efficient for individual African-Americans to use their perceptions of the interest of African-Americans as a group, as a proxy for their own interest |
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