CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Critical Race Theory, Euphemism, Meritocracy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Wayne Hanniman

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Lecture 15 race and ethnicity: physical characteristics, ra(cid:272)e refers to a perso(cid:374)"s o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)ed (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s, skin is the most determinant of race, social opinions, racism, ra(cid:272)is(cid:373) is the (cid:271)elief that o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) ra(cid:272)e is superior to other races. Both are social rather than biological or natural facts: concept of race has been linked with slavery and colonial relationships with africa and. America: racial ideologies used to justify discrimination, hispanics of the us, for example, could be of any race. Critical race theory: ra(cid:272)is(cid:373) is ordi(cid:374)ary, it"s (cid:374)ot a(cid:374) a(cid:271)erratio(cid:374)al, because of this, it is extremely difficult to eradicate, equal treatment of people is easy to institute but is much harder to achieve in practice. They benefit materially: but working class also benefit from racism, psychically, therefore these people have very little incentive to get rid of racism, brown versus brown. In 1954 the supreme court of the us said that it was unlawful for schools to discriminate to non-white people.