SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Supremacy, Color Blindness, Logical Consequence
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Race: static construction based on essentialism that define people across hardened or semi- hardened categories, people"s bodies, intelligence, aesthetics, values and understandings. Racial formation: sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed and destroyed i. e. being colour-blind regarded as a disability, race affects everyone from a young age. Athletic: there have been numerous attempts to prove white supremacy through research. History: some individuals were said not to have a soul or half a soul, white people has desirable qualities and optimal progression of human culture, canada internal colonial, deviation from human activity was a sign of limited humanity. Slavery: slavery was a prominent feature of canadian society, black slaves were bought and sold in canada at least until the 1820s. 1833, when the british government banned slavery throughout the british empire, did the practice become illegal in canada (p. 261): removes the presence of racism present.
