SOSC 1502 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Class Discrimination, Indian Act, Intersectionality

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

Document Summary

Citizenship : forms the idea of who belongs and who doesn"t, it is defined by the state. Citizens are entitled to certain rights & privileges. Gendered, racialized, and classist thought decides who benefits from citizenship and who is excluded. In razack"s article, the segregation of indigenous persons to the stroll exemplifies exclusion from the benefits of citizenship. Colonization : foundational to construction of the canadian nation-state. Processes of domination and subordination are made naturalized and invisible. Colonization consists of 2 processes: material process dispossession of land, spacial segregation, symbolic process creation of other who is lesser, process of subordination. In ravensong the colonial history still affects them, it shapes their views on white people and continues to act as an oppressive force. Intersectionality : oppression by multiple identities, race, class gender etc. Multiple systems of oppression can work together to create social inequality. Violent acts against pamela george were the result of the intersecting oppressions of gender, race and class.