CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Essentialism, Majority Minority, Toronto Police Service

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Shauna Pomerantz

Document Summary

I am canadian: growing up in a multiculti" society. Race"/ethnicity: race is about how you look; physical features, ethnicity is about religion, languages, etc, culture/religion, gender/sexuality, class/ses, dis/ability, nationhood/language, age. What is race": differentiation based on physical traits, skin colour, hair texture, facial features: lips, eyes, eye lids (how they sit), nose, asian, south asian, black, arab, latino, aboriginal, white is a colour! Allows us to make judgements on others how we judge. Race: reduces people to physical traits, all those people look and act alike . Flattens out differences across and between: basis for fear, violence, racism, people use race in fear. Race as basis for: unequal distribution of power in society. Some have the power to define others whereas: hatred, murder, violence, privilege, claiming dominant status over another group. Overview: historical context of canada"s multiculturalism, conceptualizing multiculturalism, developmental perspectives on race, acculturation. Historical context: canada"s multiculturalism was introduced in policy on october 8,1971 by.