SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Black Body, Racialization, Phenotype

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Tammy George

Document Summary

Anti-racist and critical race theorists do not ask: do we live in a racist society, but rather, we do live in a racist society and we need to do something about it. In this course we do not view racism as an aberration or rare. We seek to positively disrupt and transform racialized power relations regardless of who is involved. Carding as racial profiling issue in the gta. Issue of black focus schools emerging as an intervention into the disengagement of black students across the gta. Black lives matter protests across the gta. Issues of missing and murdered indigenous women in canada. Race: phenotypical characteristics used to describe a particular group of people. Racialization: is the process by which meaning is ascribed to the physical body based on. A group of individuals who share genetically transmitted traits. These traits are imbued with meanings that (re)produce unequal power relations.