Des Lois

Des Lois

Laws, rules and regulations are very important for this notion. They help us to understand the evolution of power. I studied a document which is entitled “Apartheid”. It’s the name given to the policy of the racial segregation in South Africa by the White minority against the Black majority in 1948. The document explains that Apartheid is a system where a part of the population is subject to discrimination and exclusion based on race, ethnicity or religion. I know that this law means separate and unequal. This is why apartheid is unpopular, unjust and why the majority oppose it. Even though, this intolerable discriminatory system has been declared illegal by Indian law, it still exists today because many hypocritical and privileged people stick to tradition. Furthermore, my research on Dalits talk about the Emancipation Act, dfihnvfdjvidfivjdfi d f f f f f f ezfb f rf gr g g fjifejvbi ff fjegnjkreg g gg ergber grjng r g rgrngljg gg gjgjnn rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrt

I'm going to talk about the notion “places and forms of power”. First I'd like to give a definition of this concept it's the ability or official capacity to exercise control, authority. I'm going to try to present this notion with examples and documents we have studied in class, like “The shame of India”, “Apartheid”, and the research about Intouchables.

Social division / Power over blacks

We can speak about the division between blacks and whites. A first document, “The shame of India”, deals with the caste system which still exists in India today. The Author’s aim is probably to inform the reader and make him react against this shameful practice. It has a close link with my research on "untouchables" because any two deals with the difficulties endured by the colored people

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