The Politics of Racism in Canada

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This course explores the politics of race and racism in Canada. It examines the intersecting issues of race, gender, class, immigration/refugee status, and culture as they relate to state policy and governance. The course addresses a range of issues including official multiculturalism, citizenship, state violence, indigeneity and colonialism, and the increasing securitization of racialized immigration groups and refugees in the post-9/11 world. Understanding race and whiteness as a socially constructed system of power relations is the central focus of the course. Restrictions: Honours Form Required.