WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Patricia Hill Collins, Squaw, Wgst
10 Sep 2015
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Lecture title: colonialism, racism, gender and violence: racist sexism. Introduction: it is not enough to think of women solely oppressed on the basis of sex or gender. 4. racist sexism has supported a legacy of oppression and exclusion that has survived both at the level of individuals and structurally. Sexual assault: efforts to control black women"s sexuality lie at the ear of black women"s oppression (hill collins, The squaw image: violence against first nations women is often ignored, ridiculed. Police resources, media attention are often not in place to end violence against first nations women. The indian act &residential schools eroding first nations culture: two key examples of systemic racism residential schools and indian act, the canadian government felt residential schools were an effective way to educate and care for. Aboriginal people in the 19th century: the indian residential school system was set up in the late 1800"s and the last school was closed in.
