CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White Supremacy, Class Discrimination, Intersectionality
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Week 8: gender race and class come together to produce the victimization of an aboriginal women, george was aboriginal and a mother of 2 children. She was an occasional sex trade worker: the first thing the police did was gather suspects like the homeless person who found her, aboriginal men, They only got caught because they bragged about the murdered and confided to friends and family. Stevens mother found his bloody shirt and destroyed the evidence. Ted malone told the all-white jury to keep in mind she was a prostitute and consented to having sex with the accused. Situating violence, policing practices, court and trial procedure within structural conditions. If george was a white women they may not have murdered her: race was key here. The privileged race was no considered a suspect. Sites of privilege and subordination: privilege, benefit, right, opportunity, subordination, exploitation, exclusion. Structures of oppression: capitalism (classism, patriarchy (sexism, white supremacy (racism)
