SOCI 302 Lecture 4: W4.1- racism & anti-racism Jan 22
Week 4- racism and anti-racism
midterm
• February 9th in class
• Chapter 1-3, 5
• Two short answer questions
Racism
• How has racism changed overtime
o Less explicit
o Not part of our law
o From biological to cultural
o Engrained in social structures and in our lives
Racism in Canada
• Aboriginal historical relations
• Slaver in Canada
• Rejection of eastern Europeans
o Around WWI
• Iteret of Japaese’s
• Internment of Ukrainians, Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians in world war II
• Kkk flourished in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s
• Racism is still there but its more behind closed doors, more private
o See it online
• NDP elected an minority but Obama was already president for two terms
Racist beliefs today
• Henry (1978)
o Frist to measure racist attitudes in Canada
o 16% of whites considered extremely racist
o 35% are somewhat racist
• Focus Canada Survey (1998)
o 7-20%...
how do minorities feel?
• Do feel a sense of prejudice
• Do feel a sense of discrimination, even here in BC
• Ipsos-Reid survey 2005
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