CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jim Crow Laws, Tiger Woods, Race Matters
Final: two sections, 1 section essay (around 65%), 1 section series of quotes from
readings/video from week 10, identify quotation (page, author) talk about significance of quote in
terms of reading)
Extension on written assignment - Friday at noon
Race, Culture, and Diaspora
Race is not biological concept - does not create species that can only breed with that species
Has real effects
‘War on Drugs’ (1971-): Annual $51 Billion
● 2002: highest incarceration rate in the world (In US)
● Amnesty Int:
○ 2 000 000 in prison
○ 5 000 000 on probation/parole
● African Americans = 12-13% of pop, 44% of prisoners (NB: CANADA: First Nations =
4% of pop, 23.2% of prisoners)
● Former prisoners
○ Disenfranchisement and denial of housing
○ Inability to find work and food insecurity
○ 2016 6 million unable to vote
○ War on Drugs: BNF
■ Racial bias is present at every level of the criminal justice system
■ 1 in 17 white males can expect to go to prison, but 1 in 3 black males can
expect to go to prison
■ Jim Crow laws - to maintain racial segregation, eg white/coloured drinking
fountains, seats on buses
‘Black Lives Matter’? (2013-)
● USA and Canada: no official statistics kept on deaths in police custody
● Research by activists, academics, and journalists
● 2000 to mid 2016
○ 12 042 killed in interactions with US police
○ 2600 blacks and 4600 marked as ‘race unspecified’
● Jan 2015-July 2016: numbers killed by police
○ 1499 civilians killed by US police (WP database)
○ 1702 deaths (442 blacks) (the counted the guardians database)
● USA: 2015 Statistics
○ Black people are most likely to be killed by police
○ 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people
○ 33% of black victims were unarmed, compared to 18% of white victims
What is ‘Race’?
● Cablinasian (caucasian, black, indian - first nations, asian) → Tiger Woods
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Document Summary
Final: two sections, 1 section essay (around 65%), 1 section series of quotes from readings/video from week 10, identify quotation (page, author) talk about significance of quote in terms of reading) Extension on written assignment - friday at noon. Race is not biological concept - does not create species that can only breed with that species. 2002: highest incarceration rate in the world (in us) African americans = 12-13% of pop, 44% of prisoners (nb: canada: first nations = Racial bias is present at every level of the criminal justice system. 1 in 17 white males can expect to go to prison, but 1 in 3 black males can expect to go to prison. Jim crow laws - to maintain racial segregation, eg white/coloured drinking fountains, seats on buses. Usa and canada: no official statistics kept on deaths in police custody. 12 042 killed in interactions with us police. 2600 blacks and 4600 marked as race unspecified".
