Week 10 Racisms in Canada: Politics, Patterns, Puzzles

Announcements No class next week (Nov 28) For January classes, please read + submission POISON STRONGER THAN LOVE all chapters (foreward to postscript) except ch See you in January Merry Xmas

Is Canada a Racist Society? Yes, No It depends….

Ongoing debates over racism More racism or more awareness? - paradox of proportion, proliferation, progress Playing the Racism card? - overuse - refusing to admit - any criticism of minorities Shifting Notions : (next slide )

SHIFTING NOTIONS OF RACISM RACISMS not racism ( Muslims, Blacks, Asians, Jews, Aboriginal Peoples ) Moving target/context dependent/”after the fact Process not thing Deliberate/overt to covert/unintended Structural, institutional and systemic As power not prejudice Integral not incidental or pathological Majority problem (not cultural differences but UR = unequal relations)

Re-conceptualizing racisms Old Ways of Conceptualizing RacismRethinking Racisms Bad individualsRacialized society + subliminal “racism without racists” “doing something bad”“doing nothing” or ‘systemic’ Hostility/hatredresentment Dwelling on differences/ “Colour conscious” Colour blind Ignoring differences Conscious/deliberate/intentUnconscious/inadvertent/consequences Racism aloneintersectionality Static ‘thing’ (noun) + Easily defined Evolving Dynamic (verb) Racial Rashomon/ Perspective ‘any exclusion’….

Whiteness as growing field of racism study Pervasiveness yet invisibility Puts focus not on impact of racism on racialized other but on conventions + constructions of whiteness - on production of domination not subordination - normativity not marginality - privilege not disadvantage Consistent with shift toward racialization

Police Reported Hate Crimes hate crimes – + 42 % from % = race, 29% = religion, 13% = sexuality Violent offences = 40 Which CMA highest = KW at 18/ Why? Hate crime unit+ Intl award (Oct 26, 2011)

Anti Semitic Incidents in total across Canada 3.3 percent increase over in harrassment, 317 vandalism, 24 violence 564 web based hate activity

Police Race Profiling as Racism? Kingston Police Services Study 2003 Do police stop young black males because of who they are or because of what they are doing? stops, proportional for some, disproportional for others, and underproportional for still others Conclusion based on data? Reaction (1) police “bad apples” (2) community ‘whole rotten barrel” Assessment - racial rashomon - who is right…..minority vs majority - justice needs to be seen to be done - articulable grounds

Highlights of Ch 3 * A perspective …. Defining Racism/You are a racist if you subscribe to the following definitions of racism…. -race-based definitions - ideology-based definitions, - culture-based definitions - structure-based definitions - power-based definitioins Definition of Racism – see UR + any exclusion that marginalizes or exploits a racialized group Constituents of Racism - Prejudice + discrimination + power

Expressions of Racisms INTERPERSONAL Hate Polite Subliminal Hate polite INSTITUTIONAL Systematic Systemic IDEOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURAL Normative Everyday

Systematic / systemic racism Systematicsystemic Up front/imposed Departure from norm Unequal treatment Conscious/deliberate/intent Deeply embedded Normal functioning Treating everyone the same Unconscious/inadvertent/consequences

Anti racism * Explaining Racism - origins - causes - persistence - costs Anti racism individual, - institutional - inclusive

(not for soc 2eo6) tutorial Is Canada a racist society - yes, no, maybe Why racism persists Its been said (p99) that a white dominated society is racist by definition, while white folk are racist as well by definition. What is the rationale or logic behind this line of thinking?