SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Institutional Racism, Oudshoorn, Turnitin

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1502
• Professor: Amar Wahab

Document Summary

Film: race, the power of an illusion (part two) Western european constructs: effect of this dominant construction: racialized women are represented and positioned as. Different from ideal femininity (based on white western european notions of what is ideal femininity) Canada s colonial history as racialized and gendered history. The precursor of canada s residential school system (indigenous children placed by government educational authorities in residential schools to assimilate them into the dominant culture) Earlier discourses of race and racialization and their co-construction with discourses of gender, class, sexuality etc. continue to structure the present moment. Policing racialized gendered difference: state eugenic projects (that aim to produce racial purity) depend on controlling racialized women. Example: differential policing of women s bodies whereby white middle class women were encouraged to reproduce in contrast to racialized women who were subjected to forced sterilization (davis)