ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Conflict Resource, Rein, Racial Profiling
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Uneven application of the law both locally or globally. There is a discrepancy between how privileged groups and marginalized groups experience the law. Privileged: the law is here to protect me. Marginalized: the law is here to oppress me. The notion that everyone has the same sense of the law is incorrect - we need to dismantle this. We still live in a space where rights can be arbitrarily removed. Universal human rights are westernized" related to unmarked dominant. Which path you choose to try and protect your rights. The law over-polices in some aspects of indigenous lives and then under protects in other aspects.
