Week 7

RACIALIZED INEQUALITY, RACIALIZED STRATIFICATION

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

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….

Working Assumptions

• Comparison measures• REA relations = Unequal Relations• Why racialized not race or racial? - race = social construction

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….

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

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

Racialized Inequality

• Existence - income, un/employment, poverty - also power and privilege• Causes - individual, institutional, societal • Cures(?) – Employment Equity

Table 5.2 Earnings* by gender, racialization, and place of birth (in $)

Male Female Average

• 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.

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%

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%

Racialized Inequality: Power

Globe and Mail Survey/content analysis: Advertised Corporate Promotions/Appointments(oct 12/10 to Feb 27 2012) (4.9%)

White males = 946White women = 285Racialized males = 42Racialized women = 18

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”

Explaining Racialized Inequality p 146

Ethnicity Paradigm Equity Paradigm

Towards Equality p 147

Equivalence Equality Equity Equality

Employment Equity

Problem or solution?EE and Explaining InequalityEE and Towards Equality