HREQ 1700 Lecture Notes - Saint Lawrence River, Cornel West, Anti-Racism

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1700
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

Document Summary

Thursday october 3rd, 2013 women"s studies lecture brulee. Race became a defining feature of christianity, dating back to colonization. White male european features become the features with which one measures and differentiates one from another: this becomes entrenched and associated, not only with religion but also with ethical values as well as aesthetic values. A biological hierarchy emerges as a discourse to differentiate the races. Race and racialization and racism is something that has come to be common. We differentiate through the races through racial power: racial power is about exclusion and domination and exploitation based on ones race. Racialize discourse emerges during the 1800"s, during the time of slavery, these discourses emerge during these time and we are told that certain populations are less rational, intelligent and capable than us. What we do is we justify the discourse and the enslavement of the people because they have not evolved .