SOC 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Glass Ceiling, Visible Minority, Canadian Human Rights Commission

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 507
• Professor: Danielle Gabay

Document Summary

There are various manifestation of racism in canada and they are not all contemporary. Before canada moved towards multiculturalism and embracing open immigration policies, there was overt racism and discrimination towards certain racial and ethnic groups. Enslavement of africans/racial segregation against free black people, is part of. Black slavery was introduced as early as 1608 (untilm1800s); did not reach levels as in. Blacks who came as british loyalists faced blatant discrimination (1793 as free. Worked as hired or indentured servant; causes race riot. Abolition act of 1793, black slaves found their way to. Blacks were restricted in their ownership of property and were unable to secure education for their children; established segregated schools. With the u. s. civil war and the emancipation proclamation of 1863 many canadian. Black chose to return to the united states. In the early 1990s canada sought ways of denying access to black americans; no explicit ban on black immigration, but discouraged black american immigration.