Racial Formation in Canada: History, Power, and Discourse

Question 1

describes the practices and procedures of dominant and hegemonic structures and systems of power over Blacks. (Benjamin 2005)

Answer 1

Anti-Black racism

Question 2

relies on the actual behaviour of an individual or on information about the suspected criminal activity that leads police to target a particular individual who has been identified as engaging, or having been engaged, in the crime

Answer 2

Criminal profiling

Question 3

any action undertaken for reasons of safety, security or public protection that relies on stereotypes about race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, or place of origin, or a combination of these, rather than on a reasonable suspicion, to single out an individual for greater scrutiny or different treatment.

Answer 3

Racial profiling

Question 4

simultaneously an interpretation, representation, or explanation of racial identities and meanings and an effort to organize and distribute resources (economic, political, cultural) along particular racial lines

Answer 4

Racial projects

Question 5

creates or reproduces structures of domination based on racial significations and identities

Answer 5

Racist Racial Project