SOC322H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths, General Social Survey, Multiple Choice
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The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically (oxford english dictionary). Canada was colonized by the british and the french. Colonization has had lasting impacts on society generally. In particular in terms of state relations with aboriginal peoples and other racialized groups. Jim crow (racial segregation laws, form of cast system which is a division of status association and characteristics, more rigid more difficult to move from one cast system to another) era never ended and instead changed into mass incarceration. These systems of racialized control have continued through mass incarceration. To canadian context: overrepresentation of aboriginals and black canadians. Internal colonialism in the u. s. the african american experience. The colonial analogy views the black community as an under-developed colony whose economics and politics are controlled by leaders of the racially dominant group.
