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In his book Domination and the Arts of Resistance, this scholar grouped unnoticed tactics of resistance employed by the oppressed into what he termed “infrapolitics.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this anthropologist, who analyzed how the indigenous highlanders of Southeast Asia voluntarily refused to be governed in his work The Art of Not Being Governed.
ANSWER: James C. Scott [or James Campbell Scott]
[10e] Scott expanded on his theory of “infrapolitics” in a work titled “Decoding [this group’s] Politics.” The title of a Gayatri Spivak essay asks whether or not this group “can speak.”
ANSWER: subaltern [accept “Can the Subaltern Speak?”; accept “Decoding Subaltern Politics Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics”]
[10h] This scholar of “infrapolitics” argued that the zoot suit was a symbol of protest against job discrimination in his 1994 book Race Rebels, which also examined the politics behind gangster rap.
ANSWER: Robin D. G. Kelley [or Robin Davis Gibran Kelley]
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2025 ACF NationalsYes2414.1796%46%0%