SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Redlining, Social Inequality, Labour Candidates And Parties In Canada
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Sy 101 - d: lecture: monday, november 20th: Race: an autonomous field of social conflict, political organizations, and cultural/ideological meaning. Macro-level: structural or institutional racism = discrimination. Institutional racism: structural racism promoted by social institutions (governments, organizations, schools, banks, courts) that impose oppressive conditions against a group of people on the basis of perceived racial differences, leads to social inequality. Analyzing the film: race - the power of illusion - the house we live in. Redlining: denying or charging more for different services to specific neighbourhoods, such as banking, insurance, jobs, healthcare etc. often on the basis of racial prejudices (results in structural discrimination) Internal colonization: a dominant racialized or ethnic group controls and exploits other groups within a single nation-state or society. Colonialism: control and exploitation of the majority of a nation by a small group of outsiders. Textbook notes: chapter 9 - race and ethnic relations (pg. Ethnic and racial labels are about power.
