SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Bull Connor, Melting Pot, Chinese Head Tax In Canada
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January 14, 2014 inequality: race and ethnicity. Talk about it to friends, say it to myself, etc. Was considered a natural order that whites were better than blacks. That"s how it"s always been, it"s natural . In restaurants, if the name included white in it, understanding from customers that the restaurant had no cooks who were coloured. Happened in canada and vancouver from the 30s-60s when many immigrants (chinese and. Indians came and were seeking jobs as fast food cooks. People didn"t want to eat food made from coloured cooks, example of racism not being public but underground. If you want to create social change, things have to be done. Prevalent race wants to blame someone when things go wrong (unemployment rate goes up, crime rate goes up, etc. ) Scapegoat is always the person without social/economic power (immigrants, or those that have been historically marginalized) Always going to blame people who don"t look like us .
