SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Selective Perception, Double Consciousness, Minority Group
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Patterns of inter-group (dominant/minority) relations o genoicde: intentional extermination of a minority group, expulsion of population transfer, dominant group expels minority group(s) o direct transfer. Du bois: the impact of societal racism on the self-identity and consciousness of minority members. Double consciousness: people are not forced out, but conditions are so bad that they want to leave, life made so difficult that the minority group wants to leave, eg. German people in ww2 felt their life was in danger and conditions were so bad that they left: segregation and seperation, physical or social separation of minority group(s, eg. Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man: assimilation, minority group absorbed by dominant group, forced assimilation: laws & policies in place to prevent people from practicing their customs. In quebec to make it illegal to provide or receive government services with face covered: permissive assimilation: people encouraged to assimilate at their own pace.
