AFAM 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: American Exceptionalism, Model Minority

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AFAM 2000H
• Professor: Gardner

Document Summary

Race as subcategory(omi and winant challenged this assumption) Goldberg is similar to omi and winant, but he suggests that we need to pay particular attention to the connections between race and nation in the configuration of the modern state. We need to understand that race and nation build on each other - what we think nation is, we think about race (as a nation) instead of the country itself. States- weber conceptualized the state as the monopolization of legitimate violence within a territorialized space. If you have a demarcated space, what makes it a state and country is that there is a monopoly over the legitimate violence. Nations- anderson"s (1991) definition most common in social science literature: Nation-state- conflation of nation boundaries with state boundaries. Thus modern states, especially in their national articulation, ordered themselves not as heterogeneous spaces but in particular as racially and culturally homogenous ones .