GENDER 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Liliuokalani, Hate Crime, Apology Resolution
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Uses categorization to differentially distribute life chances to different populations of people. Life chances: opportunities you have for education, higher education, housing. Access to services often contradict each other. Affects other people as well, not just trans people. Hate crime legislation who are the targets of hate crimes can reproduce structures that make things more difficult. Create political division between targets and those who create legislation. Matthew shepherd was a gay man who was tied to a fence and brutally beaten and left to die by two men who were committing violence because of his sexual orientation. James jr. was an african american man, was grabbed off the side of the road and was dragged down the street by a truck. Provides funding and technical assistance to state, local, and tribal jurisdictions to help prosecute hate crimes. Diverting money and assistance to criminal justice, policing. Sarah deer rape against native women.
