SOC216H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Razack Reading, Rios Reading: Racialization, New York University Press, Shooting Of Oscar Grant
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When place becomes race. from race, space and the law, ed. Racialization processes that are directly experienced as spatial. When police drop aboriginal people outside of the city limits leaving them to freeze to death, or stop young black men on the streets or in malls (razack 2002:6). Focus on racial formations is automatically a focus on class and gender hierarchies as well. Racial hierarchies come into existence through patriarchy and capitalism (razack 2002:6). A large number of workers must be housed somewhere. The buildings in which they live, perhaps the rooming houses built by their wealthy bosses, become a particular kind of space which we might say was shaped by capitalism and the class system. Here space is the result of unequal economic relations (razack 2002:8). Through these everyday routines, the space comes to perform something in the social order, permitting certain actions and prohibiting others (razack 2002:9).
