NationalismBy: Derrick Caples

Nationalism

The Pride One Has For Their Country

Banal nationalism refers to the everyday representations of the nation which build a sense of national solidarity in the citizenry.

Example Of Banal Nationalism

Nationalism

The term nationalism can refer to an ideology, a sentiment, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation.

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Ideology

Nationalism as ideology includes ethical principals:

that the moral duties of individuals to fellow members of the nation override those to non-members.

Nationalism claims that national loyalty, in case of conflict, overrides local loyalties, and all other loyalties to family, friends, profession, religion, or class.

Example of Ethical Principles

Social Movement

Social movements are a type of group action.

They are large informal groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change.

Example Of Social Movement

American Civil Rights Movement is one of the most famous social movements of the 20th century.

Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. King’s philosophy of NONVIOLENCE derived around 6 principals.

1. Nonviolence is not passive, but requires courage;

2. Nonviolence seeks reconciliation, not defeat of an adversary

3. Nonviolent actions is directed at eliminating evil, not destroying an evil-doer.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

4. A willingness to accept suffering for the cause, if necessary, but never to inflict it;

5. A rejection of hatred, animosity or violence of the spirit, as well as refusal to commit physical violence;

6. To Have Faith that justice will prevail

Nationalists

define individual nations on the basis of certain criteria's.

These criteria's typically include a shared language, culture, and/or shared values which are predominantly represented within a specific ethnic group.

Black Nationalism

principles of all black nationalist ideologies are 1) black pride, and 2) black economic, political, social and/or cultural independence from white society.

Marcus Garvey is considered to be the grandfather of black nationalism.

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association of the 1910s and 1920s was the most powerful black nationalist movement to date, claiming 11 million members.

Marcus Garvey

encouraged black people around the world to be proud of their race and to see beauty in their own kind.A central idea to Garveyism was that black people in every part of the world were one people and they would never advance if they did not put aside their cultural and ethnic differences and unite.Black people, Garvey felt, should love and take care of other black people.

Malcolm X

preached independence.declared that nonviolence was the "philosophy of the fool".Malcolm X believed that black people must develop their own society and ethical values, including the self-help, community-based enterprises that the black Muslims supported.

The Result

Black Power

Black Power was a political movement expressing a new racial consciousness among black people in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. Black Power represented both a conclusion to the decade's civil rights movement and an alternative means of combating the racism that persisted despite the efforts of black activists during the early 1960s.

Black Panther Party

Organized and established to promote Black Power and self-defense. It was active in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1970s.The Black Panther Party saw its purpose to further the African-American civil rights movement and to find solutions to the growing problems caused by the oppression of black people.

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