SOC256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Racism, Racialization, Cultural Genocide
24 Dec 2015
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Lecture 4 the riddles of race (perceptions as reality, the power of an illusion", the politics of race) The paradoxes of the race concept: race mattered. Scientific racism iq exams no consideration of cultural baggage or bias. The history of the world is epitomized in one word empire; the domination of white europe over black africa and yellow asia through political power and built on the economic control of labour, income, and ideas. Canada-aboriginal peoples relations: not accident but essential to western society/prosperity, racism = domination, power, control, racism precedes race. Even if we didn"t have race, we would have found something else to discriminate: powerful assimilations of aboriginals to be canadians, victorian era document (racist era) indian act defines aboriginal relations with canadians. Moves to remove this act but have failed. Benefits male aboriginal leaders: residential school system. Trauma to the disruption of their society. Cultural genocide: if you define everything as genocide then everything becomes genocide.
