LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Capital, Ray Rice
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Jim crowe laws (segregation no longer widespread: ex. the canadian charter of rights and freedoms. How racial and class background impacts opportunities: no equality if our circumstances are different, treating everybody the same problematic. Donut exercise: nobody earned anything that they got, where we are is an accident of birth. Different opportunities based on where we come from. Invidious (racial) discrimination: supreme court ruled it was political, not racial. Rice v cayetano: voting rights at the office of hawaiian affairs, voting preferences discriminatory, determined that voting preferences were racial, not political (completely flipped from first case) Invidious (racial) discrimination: formal equality logic won. Smooths over or cuts off important distinctions between people and assumes a unified citizenry. Material violence when we stop considering where people come from. Formal equality mainstream once we forget people have differences that impact their lives. Women make complaints because they want the violence to stop they don"t necessarily want their husbands arrested: finances.
