CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jim Crow Laws, Racial Profiling, Redlining

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Lead to race being used to created categories on how to sort people. Italians, germans less white whiteness is shaped by social practices, nothing to do with biology. Social invention in a way used to explain differences in groups, and naturalized/normalized those differences: traditional versus symbolic and systematic racism, traditional the expression of openly racist and discriminatory attitude. Certain groups are inferior, predisposed to crime and violence, so discrimination is necessary. There is an intent to be racist (jim crow laws, residential schools). Now racism has involved in our society, takes two different forms: symbolic world of language. The way the races are described, represented, spoken about. A negative representation of social groups expressed through coded language/symbols. Can seem not racist, but in reality, are informed by popular understandings of races and social problems. How it"s represented, talked about, stereotypes: systemic racism racism expressed through institutional systems.