SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tiger Woods, Black Body, Racialization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Purnima George

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Media and images of inequality lecture, november 16th. Race and racialization of the other comes to have real symbolic and material effects on individuals" lives. Anti-racist theorists don"t ask do we live in a racist society, but rather we do live in a racist society and we need to do something about it. We don"t view racism as rare, but seek to positively disrupt and transform racialized power relations regardless of who is involved. We are all assigned a position in racism, regardless of our race. Issues of criminality and racial profiling across the gta. Carding as racial profiling issue in the gta. Issue of black focus schools emerging as an intervention into the disengagement of black students across the gta: doesn"t look at why these students are disengaging; colonial content. Anti-racism rally on campus in response to the racist graffiti on the doors of york.