SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Binge Drinking, Structural Violence, Indian Register
30 Nov 2015
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How do we define or delineate raced bodies . Suggest that particular people are susceptible to certain behaviors, actions, addictions because of certain biological, physiological, or genetic position. Most racist, damaging discourses in canadian history. Aboriginal people are more biologically, innately, and inherently susceptible to alcohol use/misuse (not a true statement) Theory: that aboriginal people metabolize alcohol differently: if your aboriginal you are more likely to be an alcoholic, you get drunk quickly. They are inherently racist simply not true to say that particular groups of people have biological differences is not true: racist ideology. Theories developed in the early 1900"s in canada. When canada was being colonized by europeans: they had little to no knowledge about aboriginal people, no evidence to prove that aboriginal people are more and their cultures susceptible to alcohol. Based on classist your social economic status (education, family income) Depending on what class you come from it shapes how you understand alcohol use: ex.
