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Week 10

Week 10. Racisms in Canada: Politics, Patterns, Puzzles. Announcements. No class next week (Nov 28) For January classes, please read + submission POISON STRONGER THAN LOVE all chapters ( foreward to postscript) except ch. 2.3.4.5 See you in January Merry Xmas.

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Week 10

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  1. Week 10 Racisms in Canada: Politics, Patterns, Puzzles

  2. Announcements • No class next week (Nov 28) • For January classes, please read + submission POISON STRONGER THAN LOVE all chapters (foreward to postscript) except ch. 2.3.4.5 • See you in January • Merry Xmas

  3. Is Canada a Racist Society? • Yes, • No • It depends….

  4. Ongoing debates over racism • More racism or more awareness? - paradox of proportion, proliferation, progress • Playing the Racism card? - overuse - refusing to admit - any criticism of minorities • Shifting Notions : (next slide )

  5. SHIFTING NOTIONS OF RACISM • RACISMS not racism (Muslims, Blacks, Asians, Jews, Aboriginal Peoples) • Moving target/context dependent/”after the fact • Process not thing • Deliberate/overt to covert/unintended • Structural, institutional and systemic • As power not prejudice • Integral not incidental or pathological • Majority problem (not cultural differences but UR = unequal relations)

  6. Re-conceptualizing racisms

  7. Whiteness as growing field of racism study • Pervasiveness yet invisibility • Puts focus not on impact of racism on racialized other but on conventions + constructions of whiteness - on production of domination not subordination - normativity not marginality - privilege not disadvantage • Consistent with shift toward racialization

  8. Police Reported Hate Crimes 2009 • 1473 hate crimes – + 42 % from 2008 • 54% = race, 29% = religion, 13% = sexuality • Violent offences = 40 • Which CMA highest = KW at 18/100 000 • Why? • Hate crime unit+ Intl award (Oct 26, 2011)

  9. Anti Semitic Incidents in 2010 • 1 306 total across Canada • 3.3 percent increase over 2009 • 240 in 2000 • 965 harrassment, 317 vandalism, 24 violence • 564 web based hate activity

  10. Police Race Profiling as Racism? • Kingston Police Services Study 2003 • Do police stop young black males because of who they are or because of what they are doing? • 10 000 stops, proportional for some, disproportional for others, and underproportional for still others • Conclusion based on data? • Reaction (1) police “bad apples” (2) community ‘whole rotten barrel” • Assessment - racial rashomon - who is right…..minority vs majority - justice needs to be seen to be done - articulable grounds

  11. Highlights of Ch 3 * A perspective …. • Defining Racism/You are a racist if you subscribe to the following definitions of racism…. -race-based definitions - ideology-based definitions, - culture-based definitions - structure-based definitions - power-based definitioins • Definition of Racism – see UR + any exclusion that marginalizes or exploits a racialized group • Constituents of Racism - Prejudice + discrimination + power

  12. Expressions of Racisms

  13. Systematic / systemic racism

  14. Anti racism * Explaining Racism - origins - causes - persistence - costs • Anti racism individual, - institutional - inclusive

  15. (not for soc 2eo6) tutorial • Is Canada a racist society - yes, no, maybe • Why racism persists • Its been said (p99) that a white dominated society is racist by definition, while white folk are racist as well by definition. What is the rationale or logic behind this line of thinking?

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