Chapter 8 Race

Question 1

Racialization

Answer 1

Social process in which human groups are viewed/judged as essentially different in terms of intellect, morality, values and innate worth because of perceived differences in physical appearance or cultural heritage.

Question 2

Indigenous Classifications

Answer 2

Registered Indian, Bill C-13 Indian, band member, reserve resident, treaty indian, metis and eskimo.

Question 3

Scrips

Answer 3

Certificates given to metis declaring that the bearer could receive payment in land, cash, or goods.

Question 4

2 different types of metis

Answer 4

m=mixed indigenous and non indigenous heritage M=descendents of french fur traders and Cree women.

Question 5

Prejudice

Answer 5

Prejudgement of others on basis of group membership

Question 6

Discrimination

Answer 6

Individuals are treated differently based on group membership

Question 7

How does power manifest?

Answer 7

When institutionalized advantages are regularly handed to one or more groups over others.

Question 8

Racial Bigotry

Answer 8

Open, conscious expression of racist views by an individual

Question 9

Systemic (institutionalized) racism

Answer 9

Racist practices, rules and laws become institutionalized ex: Chinese Exclusion Act.

Question 10

Friendly (polite or smiling) racism

Answer 10

Subtle racism, hidden behind a smile or kind words.

Question 11

Master Narratives

Answer 11

Stories people tell about their countries. Racism is often downplayed or altogether omitted in these. Michel Foucault-buried knowledge.

Question 12

Primordialism (Essentialism)

Answer 12

Every ethnic group is made up of “laundry list” of traits carried down from past with little or no change. Every ethnic group has inherent, genetic traits that can be passed on from one gen to the next.

Question 13

Postcolonialism

Answer 13

Theorhetical framework that analyzes the destructive impact colonialism has on both the colonizer and the colonized. First developed by Franz Fanon and Albert Memmi.

Question 14

Indirect Rule

Answer 14

Governance policy, European nation uses the members of particular ethnic group as its intermediares ruling African Territory.

Question 15

Dual Colonialism

Answer 15

Idea that, under colonial regime, most oppressed groups suffer both at the hands of colonizers and local groups.

Question 16

Epiphenomenal Theory

Answer 16

Any ethnic conflict is a by product of the struggle between economic classes.

Question 17

Instrumentalism

Answer 17

Emerging ethnicity, no long-established ethnic characteristics. Ethnicity is a tool used to accomplish a certain goal.

Question 18

Ethnic Entrepreneurs

Answer 18

Mobilized ethnicity for personal gain. Ex: Hitler.

Question 19

Social Constructivism

Answer 19

Ethnicity is constructed by individuals for varying social purposes. Ethnic groups are created through interaction

Question 20

Everett C. Hughes

Answer 20

Studied ethnic division of labor between English and French.

Question 21

John Porter

Answer 21

Cultural Mosaic: Socieities in which individual, ethnic, cultural, and religious groups are able to maintain separate identities.
Melting Pot-Individuals forced to assimilate into new society
Vertical Mosaic-Hierarchy of higher and lower ethnic, cultural, and religious groups.

Question 22

Daniel G. Hill

Answer 22

First black canadian sociologist.

Question 23

Intersectionality Theory

Answer 23

Kimberle Crenshaw, elaborated by critical sociologist Patricia Hill Collins. Argues against notion that the experience of being “female” is basically the same for all women-interlocking matrix of domination: Gender based stereotypes combined with racial prejudice.

Question 24

Ethnicity

Answer 24

Is a shared cultural heritage that can be modified

Question 25

Visible Minorities

Answer 25

Are foreign or Canadian born, visibly a minority. Indigenous people ARE NOT visible minorities.

Question 26

4 Elements of Racism

Answer 26

1. Construction of certain groups as biologically superior or inferior
2. Stereotypes and Prejudice
3. Discrimination
4. Power and institutionalized inequality.

Question 27

Cultural Appropriation

Answer 27

Members of the dominant culture take elements of subordinate culture and use them for their own purposes (ex: indigenous halloween costumes).

Question 28

Chinese Head Tax

Answer 28

1880, the chinese worked for half of white mans wage. Cost 50-500 dollars to immigrate into Canada per person. “Yellow Peril” attempted to stop people immigrating from china. “Chinese Exclusion Act” doesn’t consider chinese as citizens of Canada.

Question 29

Komagate Maru

Answer 29

Sikh immigrants (entire boat) denied entry into Canada. No citizenship reason, simply racism.

Question 30

MS St Louis

Answer 30

Jewish refugees refused entry into Cuba and Canada, due to our Prime Minister at the time. Anti-Semitism rampant throughout Western World.