SOCIOL 2E06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prison Notebooks, Immigration Policy, Antonio Gramsci
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Lecture 8 ch 4: racial state & shift. Accommodates racial relations and patterns of con ict. State acquires their racial orientations from the con ict present within the nation clash between racial movements and the state. Every state institution is a racial institution (105) Helped form the communist party of italy 1921. Gramsci arrested put in prison for 20 years. Theorized that dominant groups maintain their power through a mix of coercion and conscent. (we discussed this on our lecture on said and orientalism) Details the relationship between the state and civil society. For gramsci the state= political society + civil society. War of position vs a war of manoever. 3 dominant changes to immigration policy: policy to continue immigration, 1962 decision to end white canada immigration rules, select immigrants on the basis of skills. Nation state protects its own industries and workers. Nation leaves it to the free play of market.