SOCI 2230

Students will critically examine processes of racialization in relation to the formation of the Canadian state, culture, and social institutions, as well as the consequences of these processes and structures for Indigenous peoples. The impact of racialization, Indigeneity, and ethnicity on Canadian social policy and practice, as well as on key social institutions including law and criminal justice administration, education, immigration, health, welfare, and the media, will be analyzed. Students will identify and critique systemic patterns of racism in white settler societies and in relation to other intersecting systems of oppression such as gender, class, and sexuality. Anti-racist social movements and patterns of resistance, including contemporary discourses of decolonization, Indigenization and reconciliation, will also be examined.