SOC341H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Institutional Racism, White Privilege, Canadian Identity
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Important components to race rmrt: race is a product of colonization, mergence of race is directly connected to power relations, racial designation typically implies inferiority, the unworthiness attached to race is inherent. Film clip: they came due to frasier gold rush, chinese worked on railway (which was vital to the confederation of canada) Imposed head tax to keep the chinese from immigrating: dangerous working conditions, bad wages, but needed to fill the needs of canadian economy (which was short on labor) Important issues: racism provides a justification for cheap labor: a need of capitalism, defining a racial group as non-assimilable/inferior necessary to rationalize exploitation. Better job opportunities, housing availability, treatment in criminal justice system, schooling. Involves inheritance of certain privileges in the past: being white is to be free of daily burden of having to fight stereotypes that have been attributed to their ethnic/racial identities. Intersectionality: recognizes the unique experience of an individual based on intersection of all relevant grounds.
