SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Racial Profiling, Institutional Racism, White Privilege
21 Jan 2017
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Institutional racism: institutional racism: discriminatory racial practices built into institutions, 3 forms, based on racist ideas, e. g, chinese-canadians could not vote until the 1940s. Institutional practices that were originally racist but no longer are: immigration policies around seasonal workers; based on overtly racist ideas that are not. 3. present currently although the policy is still in place. Institutions that unintentionally restrict the chances of certain groups (i. e, racial profiling): ch 13 siq; the racial profiling debate in toronto: data, denials, and confusion (scott. Wortley and julian tanner); evidence of racial profiling by police: white privilege: unearned privilege (social, economic, etc. ) that whites benefit from [that non-whites do not benefit from], concept developed by peggy macintosh, feminist and anti-racist scholar and activist. White privilege: aboriginals (economic and health outcomes, black men (economic outcomes suggest persistent discrimination) Social psychology why certain groups become scapegoats: primordialism, people seek out others who are similar, helps maintain social boundaries.
