SOC256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Iceberg, Social Inequality, Real Change
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Combination of m/c, short answer, short definition, essay. Top 1/10th = eg. donald sterling: most in the 9/10th not observer-able. Past: generating wealth with black slaves or gladiators show that it is possible to segment wealth and what/who you use. Using racism to understand ethnic aboriginal society in canada. First class academics may argue that racism has worsened. In theory, racisms maybe analyzed independently of other factors o. In reality, they routinely intersect with often devalued identity markers such as class, gender, and ethnicity to amplify the exclusions of inequality. Canada was once also racist; supported capitalism in two ways: exploitation of racialized and immigrant minorities, colonizing its indigenous peoples through the appropriation of their land and theft of their resources. Flourished in 1920-1930s in central and western canada o: racist bile directed at blacks, catholics, french canadians and asians. Trying to secure a white canada they favoured northern europeans for immigrations.