LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Loaded Language, Civil Rights Movements

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LS300
• Professor: Emily Snyder

Document Summary

Apa format, draw from at least two of the readings. Make sure to answer all questions posed. Apply to critical theory learned in the course. Readings: daum and ishiwata (formal equality vs social justice), and majury article (fantasy womens court, substantive equality) That which is stated in the law is not actually done in practised or exists: aspirational. Come from the same place and same rules apply to everyone longer exists) Still subtle forms of racism that exist (daum and ishiwata) Criticism of the formal equality approach: social context gets ignored. Falsely treats everyone the same: everyone is not actually socially positioned in the same way, formal equality is a myth (daum & ishiwata): The myth of a single level playing field, however, ignores that the field is more level for some groups than for others real-world inequities remain for racial and ethnic minorities and implicitly legitimates hierarchies (,p. 844) .