Week 4: Equity - Diversity, Inclusion and Privilege

History of systemic opression

Where did it come from?
- racism towards black, indigenous and people of colour
- islamophobia
- antisemitism
- ableism
- sexism
- homophobia
- religious discrimination

Canada's history

1600-1834
- enslavement
1886-1996
- residential schools
1881-1947
- head tax on Chinese and exclusion
1914
- Komagata Maru denied entry and turned back to India
1939
- turned away the ocean liner MS saint Lewis w over 900 jewish refugees
1941-1949
- internment camps forJapanese people

Power and Privilege

- inside traits are considered more desirable

Privilege definition

- advantages or resources granted to some social groups that are unavailable to other groups

Oppression

- A system that maintains disadvantages on either an individual, institutional and/or cultural level.

Emma's Case - TED TALK

- Emma believed she was not hired at a car manufacturing plant
- She is a black woman - eg. double racialized
- the judge overruled the case since the plant hired black people and women.
- BUT only black MEN and WHITE women
- she is where the 'roads intersect'

Inclusion and exclusion

exclusion, segregation, integration and inclusion

Schema

Categorical assessment of individuals and relationships between individuals. It shapes expectations and evaluations of the person in question

lecture summary

history -> society -> us -> inequity

What is Intersectionality? video

- understanding social systems and interactions by examining intersecting forms of discrimination
- many forms of oppression can be active at the same time in a persons life
eg. a person could be sexually, racially and religiously discriminated all at once

Privilege 101 video

- privilege is the top side of a coin
- the same structure can give advantages to some and disadvantage and oppression to others
eg. coin is racism -> advantage to white people
- Groups on both the top and the bottom need to address oppression.