Chapter 11 - Summary - Ethnic Relations and Race

Question 1

What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

Answer 1

• race is a category of people who have been singled out, based on real or alleged physical characteristics
• Ethnic Group is a collection of people distinguished by others or by themselves, based on culture or nationality

Question 2

What is the interactionalist perspective on race and ethnic relations?

Answer 2

increased contact between people from divergent groups should lead to favourable attitudes when groups:

• have equal status
• pursue the same goals
• cooperate with one another to achieve goals
• receive positive feedback when they interact with one another

Question 3

What is the functionalist perspective on race and ethnic relations?

Answer 3

stress that members of subordinate groups become absorbed into the dominant culture

Question 4

What is the conflict perspective on race and ethnic relations?

Answer 4

focus on economic stratification and access to power in race and ethnic relations

Question 5

What is the feminist perspective on race and ethnic relations?

Answer 5

highlights women who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are doubly disadvantaged as a result of their gender

Question 6

What is the postmodern perspective on race and ethnic relations?

Answer 6

views racial and ethnic identities as fluid and examine how these concepts are socially constructed

Question 7

What is the critical race perspective on race and ethnic relations?

Answer 7

emphasizes the significant role that race and racism have played in legal and political structures in society

Question 8

What are some of the unique historical experiences of racial and ethnic groups in Canada?

Answer 8

• Indigenous peoples victims of genocide & forced migration
• Residential schools for indigenous children
• French in inferior position after 7 years war
• Nonwhite immigrants only welcomed to Canada as a source of cheap labour - subject to racist laws and immigration policies

Question 9

How have Canada’s immigration policies affected the composition of Canada’s racial and ethnic population today?

Answer 9

• early immigration policies were racist -excluded Asian populations
• “White ethnics” were preferred category of immigrants
• 2002 - Immigration and Refugee Protection Act implemented -criteria based on attributes of human capital and skills of potential immigrants

Question 10

What changes were made to the immigration act in 1962?

Answer 10

points system opened door to immigration on an nonracial basis

Question 11

How did immigration policies change after the Immigration and Refugee Protection act in 2002?

Answer 11

implemented -criteria based on attributes of human capital and skills of potential immigrants