SOC210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Societal Racism, Structural Inequality, Redlining
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Racism: the making of an other : racism is, belief races are population whose physical differences are linked to significant cultural and social differences within hierarchy, practice of subordinating races believed to be inferior. It is not a whites ones phenomenon: racism can exist within and b/t groups of colour, different kinds of racism. Institutional: structural internalized take on beliefs of mainstream society. These implicit biases often lead to racial discrimination. Institutional racism: racial discrimination in institutions, policies, laws and institution that reproduce racial inequalities, racist assumptions about the capabilities of a group inform institutional policies and practices, ex. Racism in law enforcement and the judicial system that disproportionately affect blacks. Interactions b/t diff institutions across time and space that produce racialized outcomes through multiple generations. Orientalism as a discourse: orientalism shapes what we think about the east, only the east if you"re in the west.
