POG 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peculiar Institution, White Privilege, Surplus Labour

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 320
• Professor: Sadif Arat- Koc

Document Summary

11/12/20: a point of clarification and a correction to the (over)emphasis on the u. s. Race and differential relations to policing and the criminal justice system: racial profiling, carding and their implications for citizenship. Peculiar institutions of race in the u. s. (wacquant). The implications of the contemporary peculiar institution for citizenship. To understand race as a social construct, it is not sufficient to only look at the cases of racialized minority groups, but also to look at constructions of whiteness . Whiteness is typically unmarked as a racial category. It is commonly assumed to represent the norm. Different: canadians tend to emphasis racism existing significantly in the u. s. However, they tend to be blinded/ignorant about racism in canada. Slavery existed in canada from the beginning of the 17th century until 1834. In canadian history, slavery is not discussed but slavery did exist in canada.