Uneven Road Chapter 8 Summary
Uneven Roads Chapter 8 opens up with how difficult it would be to see a racial or ethnic group make any type of progress without identifying themselves as a group and aligning themselves together in order to achieve their shared interests. In other words, people gravitate towards certain group identities based on their race, ethnicity or gender. A very interesting point highlighted in the book and provided by political psychologists and sociologists, Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and Michael Hogg is that “social identity” or “group identity” are essential “to building a sense of community”. People are either automatically put into groups by external forces because of how they look, who they might identify with, etc. or they have personal attachments
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These common events they share may seem as thou they have linked fate producing assumptions as to what their interests really are. There is great mobilization that occurs when perceptions of group interests are examined whether it be regarding justice, freedom, and equality. For example as mentioned in Uneven Roads,” the “New Panther Party” on the militant left who conservatives believe stridently called for violent retaliation against George Zimmerman’s jury acquittal after he killed Trayvon Martin.” In The United States of America, they will always be great disagreements with what candidates, policies, or laws would best serve a specific group. Ethnic and racial political groups and the mobilization they come with will only grow much more. In Chapter 9 of Uneven Roads the authors seek to point out that to an observer it may seem as though minorities have finally overcome political exclusion because of the 2008 and 2012 elections of Barack Obama but they seem to challenge this conclusion. Minorities continue to participate in political activities in much lower rates than non-Hispanic whites, lack of resources and electoral rules can attest to the gap. Perhaps a good example is the closing of DMVS in minority neighborhoods of certain states to make registering
These common events they share may seem as thou they have linked fate producing assumptions as to what their interests really are. There is great mobilization that occurs when perceptions of group interests are examined whether it be regarding justice, freedom, and equality. For example as mentioned in Uneven Roads,” the “New Panther Party” on the militant left who conservatives believe stridently called for violent retaliation against George Zimmerman’s jury acquittal after he killed Trayvon Martin.” In The United States of America, they will always be great disagreements with what candidates, policies, or laws would best serve a specific group. Ethnic and racial political groups and the mobilization they come with will only grow much more. In Chapter 9 of Uneven Roads the authors seek to point out that to an observer it may seem as though minorities have finally overcome political exclusion because of the 2008 and 2012 elections of Barack Obama but they seem to challenge this conclusion. Minorities continue to participate in political activities in much lower rates than non-Hispanic whites, lack of resources and electoral rules can attest to the gap. Perhaps a good example is the closing of DMVS in minority neighborhoods of certain states to make registering