Ethnic Politics - How Do Dominant and Subordinate Groups Communicate with One Another?

Michael Rossi
Department of Political Science
Program in International Relations
Long Island University Brooklyn

This lecture examines the importance of "public" and "hidden" transcripts between dominant and subordinate groups: how these groups communicate with each other publicly through certain performative acts of diplomacy, deference, and authority; and how they communicate among themselves - and whether perceptions and opinions of the other are more genuine in the safety and security of in-group members.

This discussion is largely based on the first two chapters of James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance, and forms the theoretical model of our discussion around more specific studies of resistance - both passive and open - among minority and subordinated classes of people.

The discussion ends with an examination of when hidden transcripts emerge into the public: through the types of "Black rage" articulated by Malcolm X, and the more benign, but politically culturally discernible, social networks that created the casitas of the South Bronx between the 1970s and the 1990s.

Readings Assigned:

Scott, James C.: 1990. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. Yale University Press
“Behind the Official Story”, pp. 1 – 16
“Domination, Acting, and Fantasy”, pp. 17 – 44

West, Cornel: 1993. Race Matters
“Malcolm X and Black Rage”, pp. 95 – 105

Sciorra, Joseph, and Martha Cooper: 1990. “‘I Feel Like I’m in My Country’: Puerto Rican Casitas in New York City”. The Drama Review 34:4, pp. 156 – 68

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 - 00:01:50 - Introduction
00:01:50 - 00:08:36 - Continued Discussions of...
00:08:36 - 00:14:23 - James Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance
00:14:23 - 00:20:06 - Some Questions to Think About Before We Get Started
00:20:06 - 00:27:34 - The Importance of Transcripts
00:27:34 - 00:35:00 - "Public Transcript is Not the Whole Story"
00:35:00 - 00:50:05 - Transcript, Language, and Diplomacy
00:50:05 - 00:59:52 - The Narratives of Hidden Transcripts
00:59:52 - 01:06:42 - "The Weapons of the Weak"
01:06:42 - 01:15:16 - The Hidden Transcript of the Casita
01:15:16 - 01:23:00 - A Blending of the Public and the Hidden

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