SOCIOL 2JJ3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Minority Group, Social Constructionism, Visible Minority

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2JJ3
• Professor: Jessica Braimoh

Document Summary

Counting race: visible minority: category used by stats canada to classify people who are non- Caucasian in race or non-white in colour: people are asked to check all of the ethno-racial categories they belong too and are given categories such as chinese, south asian, black, filipino, latin american, arab, Southeast asian, west asian, korean, japanese: note the visible minority category is not intended to capture indigenous peoples, and the vague black category is not appropriate when there are 6 asian categories. 2: residential schools: discourse of education to assimilate students into another culture. Ideas informed by historical, social, cultural and political values i. e. white passing: people classified as members of one racial group are accepted as members of the dominate/different racial group. This reaffirms the notion in which white is good , which is not the case. Ton and stoney creek is nicknamed tony creek : racial projects, jim crow laws: telling black people what they can and cannot do.