SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Saskatoon Freezing Deaths, Critical Race Theory, Legal Culture
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Clips on systemic discrimination against aboriginal peoples. Two worlds colliding nfb documentary on police and freezing deaths of aboriginal men. What is critical race theory? an academic discipline that adopts a critical approach to understand the intersection of race, law and power. It is an academic movement that looks at society, law and the criminal justice system through a racial lens. Crt recognizes that racism is engrained into the fabric of society. It focuses on how law adversely affects people of color not as individuals but as a group. Late 1970s and 1980s at harvard university and uc berkeley (there were sit-in"s and protests and they were arguing that there was a lack of african american professors in the university) The law students were protesting against the hiring process of the law professors. There was a mass of african law professor that were criticizing the racist policies. The african law professor was replaced with a more right wing professor.
