POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Societal Racism, Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Africville
10 Jul 2016
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Emphasis on challenging stereotypes, prejudices, preconceptions about who people are, and what that means. Goal of maximizing possibility of self expression. Goal of challenging gender norms and sex binary. Broad range of social movements based on identity. Analysis and perspectives of different identities important in challenging oppression and inequality. Identities matter because it is how we understand ourselves, it is what is meaningful to us and the sorts of relationships with others that we enter. Part of a larger phenomenon of social movements aiming to change not only governments or specific policies or pieces of legislation but society as a whole. Experimentation with form such as direct, participatory, democracy, skill sharing, anti hierarchical. Coalescing around particular issues and points of agreement. Shares features with feminism as ideology, diverse array of opinions, often allied with other ideological approaches like liberalism, socialism, nationalism and feminism.
