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An idea and
reality in sociology and society largely associated with the sociologist Richard Blauner.
It refers essentially to the experience and social position of certain minority segments
in society (in Blauner's work, blacks in American society) as analogous to the traditional
colonial situation. Furthermore, the dominant (white) nation-state power extracts the
material and human resources from the weaker nation (usually third
world) while exercising political and economic control. The only and crucial
difference, of course, is that with the "internal colonial" situation both the
expropriators and the colonialized are within the same national political and economic
system. Along these lines, the position of native Americans, Chicanos, blacks, Puerto
Ricans, etc., in American society may be seen as a "colonial" one. This view
tends to see the racism within American society as an
essentially economic phenomenon - inherent in the structure of our dynamic corporate
capitalist economic system.
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