Lec #15: Racial/ethnic segregation in south africa and israel Flashcards
1
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What is Apartheid?
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- The governments legal policy, law or system of segregation and/or discrimination based on race/ethnicity
2
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what does apartheid involve?
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- Inhumane acts, systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another
- causes significant violations of human rights: social, cultural, political, and economic rights
3
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When did apartheid start in south africa? and when did it end?
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- it was created b/w 1948 and 1994 which legally separated people from the designated race/ethnicities in every aspect of human life
- it ended in 1994, and everyone in south africa was granted the right to vote
4
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What was the apartheid like in south africa?
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- peoples from different races and ethnicities were separated form each otherw/ different rights and obligations for each group
- Hospitals, schools, beaches, restrooms, theatres, and sports fields were designated mostly for whites but occasionally for people of colour
- only whites could run for office and vote
- forbid extramarital interracial sex as well as intermarriage
5
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what were examples of direct violence in south africa?
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black people were beaten, murdered and killed
6
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What were examples of structural violence in south africa?
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- Apartheid system
- blacks were only allowed to go certain places and do certain things
- needed documents to travel
- unequal distribution of resources
- social, economic, political distribution that created unequal opportunities for people
7
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How is the south african apartheid different from the Jim Crow laws?
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South african segregation:
- it has categories based on physical appearance: black, white, coloured and indian
- people of colour were th majority while only 13% of the pop. were white
The Jim Crow segregation:
- was based on the “one drop rule” which designated anyone w/ any “negro blood” as a negro
- white people in the US dominated numerically over ppl of colour
