POLS 114

Embodying diversity: problems and paradoxes for Black feminists

The Dynamics of Democratic Exclusion

The Apology

Direct Democracy and Puritan theory of membership

Trial of _________

Liberal Society and the Indian Question

A Desire for Land but Not People: Herrenvolk Democracy and the Violent Legacies of the Mexican-American War

Immigrant America? How Foreignness "Solves" Democracy's Problems

Color of law

Race for Profit

Punishment and Inclusion

Workplace Democracy

Five Faces of Opression

Diversity is seen as a virtue but often only indicates the presence of nonwhites in a space rather than more significant factors like how much they are able to contribute to or influence those spaces

The image of the angry black feminist is needed to create change because by expressing contentment and gratitude as expected by POC, it gives the impression that the POC are satisfied with the status quo when they are not

Whiteness is the norm and nonwhites are expected to be grateful to be included in their spaces

Organizational culture;

Whiteness is the norm and nonwhites are expected to be grateful to be included in their spaces

Have to be angry in order to make change happen even if it is seen as disruptive and unproductive for white feminism

By engaging in a system, you become that system

Plato was simply questioning them, not alleging anything

Antidemocratic tendencies

Corruption of youth

atheism

Members needed to demonstrate their worth in order to be accepted, and they were only a member of that specific church

It appears that democracy inherently needs to exclude, as we would need to vet citizens as well as we vet politicians

Sexism and biases can be very damaging in direct democracies

Removal of unfit people is necessary in direct democracies

Those who challenge authority in direct democracy are dangers to it

They thought natives were child-like and needed to be civilized

Whites needed to expand to keep up with growing needs of expansionism

Whites stacked the deck against natives and then gave them “free choice”

Used natives to engage in behavior not allowed in liberal society

Whites believed Mexicans were incapable of democracy

Expansion was stopped by realization that they would need to include Mexicans, and so they stopped expanding and began work to assimilate the Mexicans in the US

Mexicans were legally white but socially non-white, and this was non-democratic

1. class mobility

2. immigrants engage in community building and sustaining

3. patriarchal family focus

4. immigrants show that the social contract is real because they literally sign papers

5th myth: immigrants promote democracy, not the state, and citizenship is not given to you but is the act of demanding changes

Rejects argument that segregation resulted from private practices

Public policy, law, and other specific government actions have intended to prevent African Americans and whites from living among one another

These policies and laws are unconstitutional

De facto

de jure

Felon disenfranchisement makes felons - who are predominantly BIPOC - excluded from democracy

Even those who are not felons are shaped by disenfranchisement because there is an understanding that at any moment your democratic rights can be taken away

banks and real estate industry as a whole undermined Black home ownership via U.S. housing policies related to the FHA housing when the HUD ended redlining.

“predatory inclusion” African American homebuyers were granted access to conventional estate practices and mortgage financing on more expensive and unequal terms

Unions are good for workers, good for our communities and economy, and good for democracy, but they are stopped by companies

Lack of union participation as a means to demonstrate undemocratic practices.

Exploitation

Marginalization

Powerlessness

Cultural imperialism

Violence