CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Common Sense Revolution, Rodney King, Underground Railroad
18 Sep 2019
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The underground railroad: national myths and canadian racial exceptionalism: slavery, segregation, banning of black immigration, over and under policing of black people, racialized incarceration. Slavery was practiced in canada for 206 years, and this means its very hard to move away from the beliefs that underpinned this immigration was encouraged to decline the entry of blacks in canada. There was an acquittal of officers who had beaten rodney king, and there was a march organized in toronto following this anger, but it wasn"t just about the acquittal, there were issues in toronto as well. We need to have a consideration of who has what roles in society and who has the power. Anti-black racism anti-black racism is prejudice, attitudes, beliefs etc. , that is directed at black people and rooted in their history and experience of enslavement. Anti-black racism is manifested in the legacy of the current social, economic and political marginalization of african.
