PSYC 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Critical Race Theory, White Supremacy, Jackson Katz
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Contemporary critical perspectives and thinking about social justice. Concerns: then study and transformation of relationships among. Everyone given the same size box to see over female but short people cannot as well as tall. Focus on the intersection of race, laws and power. Skin colour similar to dads and gender, is used to legitimize domination and control of other races. Many dominant social thinkers argue that: racial inequality, as with class and gender inequality , governs social position in society and, therefore, criminal opportunities, social circumstances need to be separated from race. Racial and ethnic minorities are: disporportionaly represented in arrest and victimization reports. One of the major facing these countries is the disproportionate number of minority inmates. Canada: as of 2013, aboriginal people (fn, meris, inuit) made up about 4% of canadian population and. 23. 2% ofnfedeeal inmate population: there are approximately 3400 aboriginal offenders in federal penitentiaries, approximately 71% are fn, 24% meris, and 5% inuit.