SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Orlando Patterson, White Privilege
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Race: social distinction based on perceived physical or biological characteristics. Ethnicity: social distinction based on cultural characteristics (language, religion, customs, shared history) Visible minority: persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-caucasian in race or non-white in colour. employment equity act. Racialization: the process by which groups come to be defined as different on the basis of perceived physical characteristics. Racism is a highly organized system of group privilege based on socially constructed racial categorization that operates at every level of society and is held together by a sophisticated ideology of colour/ race" supremacy. Race & ethnic categories as a system of inequality. Privileges & sanctions attached to racial and ethnic categories. Process of othering treating people as though they were different, distinct, outsiders, less worthy. Often involves establishing one"s own identity through opposition. An invisible package of unearned assets that i can count on cashing in each day, but about which i was meant to remain oblivious.
