From the headlines
Skin deep concepts
Supporting actors
It happened here
Readings
100
VIDEO CLUE
What is RACIAL PROFILING
100
An example: On today's news, the Toronto Somali community argued for a scholarship to encourage Somali students to continue in school. The TDSB countered that it was only fair that any scholarship must be open to all students in Toronto, not specifically Somali students.
What is colourblindess?
100
The treatment of all members of a social group as basically the same with shared interests, goals and concerns (among other things). Tomlinson used Memmi's 'mark of the plural' to put it another way.
What is ESSENTIALISM
100
A policy of state-sponsored cultural genocide in Canada. The last of these institutions closed in 1996
What are RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
100
Blaut talks about it as the modern form of racism, Meer uses Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as examples of it
What is CULTURAL RACISM?
200
This educational approach stirred controversy in the Toronto headlines. Critics associated it with histories of segregation.
What is Africentric Schooling?
200
Often invisible benefits given to one group in society. Examples include preferential treatment in hiring, less surveillance by police, and universal band-aid colours.
What is WHITE PRIVILEGE?
200
The practice of seeing everything through a white, Western lens. Enlightenment thinkers were particularly guilty of it but it still plays out in educational curricula
What is EUROCENTRISM?
200
Beginning in 1885 this was levied against one group of immigrants to Canada.
What is the CHINESE HEAD TAX
200
Holivino and Tomlinson talked about this approach to understanding race, gender and various other forms of oppression simultaneously.
What is INTERSECTIONALITY?
300
Following 9/11, this is a form of othering that racializes religion.
What is ISLAMOPHOBIA
300
A functionalist approach to 'dealing with difference' in a one-way process. Name an example of an assimilationist approach.
What is assimilation?
300
Examples include the mass media, education, the workplace and social groups.
What are AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
300
An official policy in Canada, this is also critiqued for being another form of anti-radical liberalism that reduces racial dynamics to cultural celebrations
What is MULTICULTURALISM?
300
Khalid and Said talk about this concept of constructing one group as the Other to Western rationality and progress. Name the concept and the theoretical lens it comes from.
What is ORIENTALISM?
400
The recent Quebec secularist bill is drawing on this form of racism. How do you know?
What is Cultural/Ideological Racism?
400
A discourse that points to the societal importance and consequences of skin colour in various setting.
What is SALIENCY OF SKIN COLOUR?
400
Organizational in form and consisting of policies and structures that oppress or discriminate against certain groups.
What is INSTITUTIONAL RACISM? Give 2 examples of institutions we discussed
400
Part of the shift to the points system meant to convey objectiveness. There are 9 of them. Bonus points for naming them.
What is Canadian Immigration Selection Criteria
400
Action oriented with 10 basic principles including acknowledging subjugated knowledges and acknowledging the relationship between identity formation and schooling. Talked about by de Kleut, Hylton and Rashid.
What is ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION?
500
This concept is demonstrated in the following advertisement: Hint: Also systematically practiced against disabled women in Western Canada until 1972.
What is EUGENICISM?
500
Discussed in articles by Muir, Paolucci and Blaut. This is a form of scientific racism based around taxonomies, hierarchies and categories.
What is BIO-GENTIC RACISM What is another term for this?
500
A social process by which individuals come to be raced. Thus, when someone is understood by society to be non-White, they are understood to be this. Bonus 100 points: Which reading did the above quote come from? OR name 2 readings that cover this.
What is RACIALIZED
500
This piece of legislation has the power to define people, quell sovereignty and has been accused of sexism and paternalism. Bonus: Why is it sexist and paternal?
What is THE INDIAN ACT?
500
Explained in Fleras, one term can be described as community membership, an identity or through nationalist movements. Can be explained as primordial connection, constructivist category, instrumentalist strategy. Differs from another term because there is a level of self-selecting option (Mahtani).
What is What is ETHNICITY VS RACE