SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homo Sapiens, Black Ice, Radicalization
23 Mar 2017
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Thinking of race as some kind of genetic fact is not only scienti cally wrong, it is socially, politically and psychologically harmful. Race : a social construct: race is not real ; this means there are no genetic and biological determinants that de ne. In this sense race is a social construct. It is an idea, a myth: even though race is not real, we cannot conclude that race was / is not real in its social, political, economic and psychologic effects : British were the biggest transporters of slaves across the atlantic during the 18th century: between 12 million - 22 million africans were forced into chattel slavery, plantation economies of the new world were built on slave labour. Canada (although canada did not have plantation economies). Cultural genocide : indigenous people: historically, indigenous people in canada have been severely disadvantaged by , their forced relocation on the reserves.
