POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indian Agent, Precontract, Theresa Spence
Document Summary
Political citizenship originally conceived of in unequal terms. Representation of gender and racial diversity in canadian politics. We spoke about 6 different conceptions of political representation. Slide: minority citizenship from the time of confederation there has been racial inequity in canadian society. Racial restrictions on voting not fully removed until 1948; inuit not given vote until 1950 wasn"t until1950 is when racial restrictions on who could vote were removed. Asian canadians prevented from owning property in bc until 1947 property taken away and moved to the interior of the region for what was called security reasons. Legacy of residential schools for indigenous canadian removed from their families, took away their culture and language in wan effort to. Targeted sterilization for so called unfit mothers, who were disproportionately aboriginal women so just like the story with gender, there has been unequal citizenship on the basis of perceived racial background too.
