SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Race Theory, Metrology, Legal Culture
16 Sep 2016
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Challenges assumptions about law - fairness & equality . Asks: where is race, how does race change people"s experiences & encounters in terms of the law, how are race and racial power constructed & represented within. No one perspective, theory, metrological approach or doctrine. Understand creation of white superiority & suborder of people of color. How race is structured & structured by ideas/legal doctrines such as. Fairness", equality" & equal protection under the law". Race neutral doctrines are not neutral; only carry appearance. Want to change the relationship between race, racism and the law. Commitment to political action affect social change. No objectivity or neutrality within academic knowledge and/or legal spheres. Race is apparent in the legal sphere. Canada national mythology of harmony: people don"t want to talk about race because of the fact that we are. If not addressed, we cannot enact social change. Canada structured by racist policies (indian act, reserve system, chinese.
