CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ontario Human Rights Commission, Pru Goward, Intersectionality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3318
• Professor: Baljit Nagra

Document Summary

Looks at the oppression that arises out of the combination of various forms of discrimination: recognizes the unique experience of an individual based on intersection of all relevant grounds (e. g. class, gender, "race", immigrant status, disability, etc. Examples of intersectionality: black women and sexual harassment, transgendered black women, muslim women and hate crimes, violence against indigenous women. One can be oppressed psychologically: "to be psychologically oppressed is to be weighted down in your own mind and to have a harsh domination exercised over your self-esteem. Why has internalized racial oppression not been studied effectively by social sciences: concern that it"ll be misinterpreted as reflecting some weakness of the oppressed rather than a problem of white racism, the theoretical fixation with "resistance"; Internalized racial oppression: not a result of some cultural or biological characteristic of racialized groups or a sign of weakness;