GWST 1501 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bell Hooks, False Dilemma, White Supremacy

• School: York University
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 1501
• Professor: Andrea O' Reilly

Document Summary

Women are determined by our genes. (reading: dualing dualisms) We automatically value one side over the other. The + side is considered the norm and the side is considered the other . Binary thinking is reductionist: anti-racist feminism, settler colonialism. 213427125: in this course we have argued that racism is socially and historically constructed. Second, drawing on evidence and examples from the criaw report. Women"s experience of racism: how race and gender interact and lee. Racism has existed for many years and is alive even today. The history of racism traces back to the 1600"s during colonialism. When britain decided to take over north america from the native people. They needed others to do the work for them. They decided to then take people from africa and make them their slaves as well as the natives they hadn"t killed in a genocide. According to cooper slavery had been in canada as well for over two hundred years.