CRIM 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maher Arar, Critical Race Theory, Racialization
8 Dec 2016
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Crim 332 week 8 (oct 27, 2016) Critical race theory: suspicious bodies, security and bill c-51. Provide context and early legal challenges, for example, the rodrigeuz case and other challenges. Quebec has a bill as does several us states and european countries. Media sources for controversies, limits to the law, different stakeholders. Grounds for challenges what the bill includes and excludes. How 9/11 changed how north americans viewed terrorism. Coordinated terror on north american soil by foreign nationals: not the first, but mass casualties (twin towers, pentagon, and one failed) by al-qaeda. Secret detentions in black sites without access to trials or legal procedures and torture legitimized. Guantanamo: torture regularly used, omar khadr. Wars: first, afghanistan, followed by war in iraq based on false evidence. New regime of security, legislation, and expansion of state power: moral panics around threat and safety.
