GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Racialization, Fetus, Simone De Beauvoir
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In reality, back in the day men had a very specific definition that exclude a majority of the people. Has a different expectation of certain kinds of people then other kinds: comack- two understandings of race. As biological (i. e. biological essentialism: that something in our very bodies produces racial differences. As social construction: social construction= knowledge produced through socio-historical process, chan two approaches to criminology that map on to our understanding of race, positivist criminologist. Do not question the idea of race, accept it as a given. Defined race as: product of social interactions, race is socially constructed, race only has meaning to it as much as we attach meaning to it, fluid and changeable, how you define race impacts on who qualifies where. 2: who (cid:272)ou(cid:374)ts as (cid:862)(cid:449)hite(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ho does(cid:374)(cid:859)t changes over time, race as culture or cultural racism. White canadians are always from somewhere else: white canadians are rarely asked where are you really from, criminogenic properties.
