GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Idle No More, Racial Hygiene, Homicide

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 101
• Professor: Lara Campbell

Document Summary

Racism & sexism: understanding multiple and intersecting oppressions. Race: socially constructed classification of humans based on skin colour and physical. Racialize (attribute difference is character and morality) Conscious belief in racial superiority of one group over another; hostility, anger, sense of superiority. Normalizes differential treatment; based on group characteristics. Built into social policies, institutions, everyday life. How race and gender interact and sustain inequality. Eg: importance of family; connections between men and women. Category which confers particular benefits and privileges. Multiple systems of oppressions (race, genders, sexuality, dis/ability; class) are interconnected. Goal: not diversity challenge structures of power, hierarchy, and injustice. Not to celebrate difference, but to challenge to structure of hierarchy, power, inequality. High rates of violence: indian act (1876+) Decrease in equality and political participation (women) Women held a lot of power in aboriginal communities. Section 12(b); loss of status/abilities when marry a non-native man. Racial purity and racial hierarchy vs. cheap labour/wealth.