SOC341H5 Lecture Notes - National Conference For Community And Justice, A Class Divided, Chinese Canadians
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Slavery: ppl from africa europeans thought they were better, and mentally and physically inferior, making the blacks feel dehumanized. Racism is typically differentiates btw ppl on the basis of outward physically characteristics such as skin color, hair texture and facial features (religion: anti-semetism) Evaluates their intellectual and cultural characteristics as being inferior or superior on the basis of these superficial characteristics. The process of racialization is historically specific so that the meaning given to bodily features vary over time and space. What characteristic becomes most overt depends on a range of political, economic, social and other factors. National brotherhood week: don"t treat the indians and the black ppl like brothers. Black ppl are niggas, and that because they are a different color they don"t get anything in this world bc they are different colors. Teacher does experiment based on eye-color: blue-eyed vs. brown eyed ppl.
