SSCI 1300U Lecture 4: Race and ethnic relations
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Informed by historical, social, cultural and political values. Ideology: positions of power, relational, produces structural advantage for some people and not others. Fluid: whiteness is not refer to just skin colour, whiteness is position of power and valued different than those who are not white, whiteness is fluid it"s not static definitions changes constantly. Racialization: the process by which we assign racial connotations to people and their bodies. Society historically based on colonization through foreign: economically driven, role of violence genocide, war, enslavement settlement and displacement of. Aboriginal inhabitants: race is very central to how colonialism evolved. Who is at the top and who is at the bottom. Indigenous peoples: residential schools, white paper (1969) Immigration: chinese immigration act (1885 [1903], chinese immigration act (1923) Immigration act (1952- 1962: refugees, st. louis ship carrying 930 jewish refugees, to land in 1939, forcing it to return to europe, race and ethnicity was constructed through immigration.
