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Week 7 RACIALIZED INEQUALITY, RACIALIZED STRATIFICATION
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Resheduling of classes Feb 27 - Racialized Inequality (ch 5) Mar 6 - NO CLASS BUT ASSIGNMENT, AND DUE BY MARCH 13 http://thetyee.ca/Books/2012/09/15/Too-Asian-Allegory/ Title “The Allegory that Blows Too Asian Away. Write a one page (1.5 spacing) review of the above article. Critically assess the article. Obligatory + worth 2 bonus marks March 13 – Gendered Inequality (ch 6) etc
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March 21 – Intl Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination UN Report Card on Canada? Good on ya, but… Racial Discrimination - income, poverty, employment - racial profiling / CJS - violence toward Aboriginal women A Perspective….
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Working Assumptions Comparison measures REA relations = Unequal Relations Why racialized not race or racial? - race = social construction
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Racialized Society Socially constructed yet concealed all societies = distinction = division of labour = devaluation = deeply embedded in society Not neutral but ideologically loaded Racialized stratification = Slanted toward whiteness as norm, advantaging, desirable Racialized mins = equal but must exercise….
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Racialized Ideas and ideals about what is acceptable, normal and desirable pertaining to race, culture, nationality, religion Deeply embedded in design, organization, agendas, values, operations, rewards, outputs Yet little awareness of this systemic bias Advantaging some (whites), disadvantaging others with respect to power, privilege property
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Racialized stratification Social Stratification - division of society into layers, hierarchy/ranking - similar amts of power, privilege, property - race, gender, social class Social Inequality - differential access, differential distribution - patterned, persistent, harmful, resistant
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Racialized Inequality Existence - income, un/employment, poverty - also power and privilege Causes - individual, institutional, societal Cures(?) – Employment Equity
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Table 5.2Earnings* by gender, racialization, and place of birth (in $) Male FemaleAverage Racialized minority (CB**)$42 433 $33 519$38 582 Racialized minority (FB***)$35 329 $27 075$31 829 Whites (CB)$43 456 $31 150$38 529 Whites (FB)$46 457 $31 627$40 854 Aboriginal peoples$32 369 $26 361$29 290 * Full-time, full-year earnings for those aged 25 to 64. ** Canadian born *** Foreign born Source: Adapted from Kunz et al. 2001. Source: 1996 Census, Public Use Microdata File.
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Racialized Inequality EARNINGS…. Canada’s Colour Coded Labour Market (2006 data, Block and Galabuzi 2011) Racialized male immigrants = 67 % of non… Racialized women immigrants = 48% Racialized families = 20 % poverty vs 6.4%
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National Council of Welfare (2012) POVERTY LICO measures Racialized Minorities - 24 percent of Chinese, 20 % South Asians, 18 % Blacks ….. 1 % Japanese Immigrants - 66 percent - if arrived before 1970 (2%), 2001-06 = 42% - Asia/Middle East = 71%
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Racialized Inequality: Power Globe and Mail Survey/content analysis: Advertised Corporate Promotions/Appointments (oct 12/10 to Feb 27 2012) (4.9%) White males = 946 White women = 285 Racialized males = 42 Racialized women = 18
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Political representation in GTA 253 council seats for 25 municipal councils racialized minorities = 7 percent Corporate leadership = 4.2 percent GTA slogan, “Diversity is our Strength”
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Explaining Racialized Inequality p 146 Ethnicity ParadigmEquity Paradigm
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Towards Equality p 147 Equivalence EqualityEquity Equality
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Employment Equity Problem or solution? EE and Explaining Inequality EE and Towards Equality
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