Module 1: Defining and Measuring Racism

Question 1

Bakers theory of The New Racism

Answer 1

Racism has always referred to a mix of biological and cultural arguments; an increased emphasis on cultural difference is not necessarily a new phenomenon

Question 2

Racism in Canada

Answer 2

Concludes that racism is not a multifaceted term and it is possible to define and measure

Question 3

Races of people do not exist in any meaningful biological sense

Answer 3

According to Satzewich, what do scientists and sociologists both hold true pertaining to race?

Question 4

Canada’s social and systemic issues

Answer 4

Satzewich argues that Porters Vertical Mozaic is a blanket characterization of a unifomrly racialized system of inequality

Question 5

Racialization

Answer 5

Both individuals and societies attach social significance to certain patterns of physical and genetic difference