GEOG 2UI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: White Privilege, Visible Minority, Ernest Burgess
30 Aug 2016
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Ethnicity: group identity based on shared language, religion, nationality and/or culture. Our focus: race as a social construct. Stuart hall (1991): physical difference used as basis for social differentiation. Not all groups are white" in the same way. White privilege in na context associated with nordic" north western european norm. Questions of racial ethnic difference matter, in part, because cities are diverse place. In recent decades, (large) canadian cities have become much more diverse. Patterns and rates immigration are a key influence on urban diversity. High level of immigration in 1990s and 2000s. 1990 (family reunification 34%; refugee 19%; independent/economic 45%; other 2%) 2014 (family reunification 25%; refugee 9%; independent/economic 64%; other 2%) 73% of nation"s 4 million visible minorities lived in toronto, montreal and vancouver (hou and picot 2004) Ten leading countries of immigrant origin (2006 census) The degree to which a group is spatially separate from others within the city.
