WGST 3812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Murder Of Reena Virk, Restoule, Visible Minority

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 3812
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Wgst 3812 living with the system: delineating the meaning of difference. *all content belongs to lori a. stinson & where cited in lecture slides* Defining race: visible minorities, racialized populations. Social & self definition, framing & social construction of race. Compound discrimination: form of double-whammy discrimination that aboriginal & minority women experience b/c they"re both sexed & raced as other. Intersectional discrimination: arises out of combo of various oppressions which, together, produce something unique & distinct from any 1 form of discrimination standing alone. Marginalization due to processes of colonization indian act, residential schools, child welfare practices, etc. Aboriginal population = largest & fastest growing population in canadian society & canadian prisons: 75% of all aboriginal women who are federally sentenced in prairie region. With the exception of black women, minority women represent quite a small portion of the total number of women who go to prison in 1992/93 (ontario commission on.