SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Visible Minority, Racialization, Ethnic Group
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Reminder: no class next week reading week. Theme of today: ethnicity, racialization and the consequences of them. Catalonia pushes for independence from spain: ethnic differences still exploding in the world today. Similar to what happens in lots of countries with cultural and regional differences. Group that wants independence seeks recognition and support from outside. Racialization: habit of putting people into racial and ethnic groups. Process through which race and ethnicity are imposed on others via institutional social actions: race is something people do to others, rather than reflecting what/who they are. Its not something that we look for in people: we create race and racial inequality by performing the idea of racial differences. People often perform ethnic differences on their own. We place these labels onto people/group them into racialized groups which have assumed sets of attributes, and stereotypes (normally negative) In a highly populated urban city like toronto, the prof said that this number is likely 50%
