CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fredrik Barth, Jane Elliot, Radicalization
15 Oct 2018
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It is a big part of the cjs. The un released a report saying that canada has a racist problem in the cjs. Aims to uncover racism and then critique it. Goal combat racism, expose racist practices and fight for equality. Believes that race has played a role in modern society: ex: canada is a colonial racial state. Knowledge and ideas are formed through racism. Provides opportunity for learning about issues and horrific events: ex: the holocaust occurred because of racial motivation. Can be used to explain cheerful things: ex: chinese new year. Name conflicts occurred due to race: rwanda, bosnia, holocaust, japanese internment camps in canada, segregation. Thursday, september 6, 2018: israeli-palestine conflict, us-mexico, south africa. The real issue is power but it leads to racism. Early theorists viewed race as something from birth: today, it has been dismantled, viewed as fix, permanent and unchangeable, rooted in circumstances that surrounded the birth of a person.
