Sociological Imagination And Racial Identity

Sociological Imagination and Racial Identity: The Race against Identity
A number of things go into the creation of an “identity”, and a person’s race has a tremendous influence on said creation. Leading to the sociological term differentiation which is “the term used to signal that differences exist”. It can be said that human nature drives people to find differences between things, even if there are none. Doing this allows for there to be a separation in between the different races. Even though arguably everyone in existence is very similar. Creating these certain “identities” allows people to profile others without essentially knowing them.
Sociological Imagination
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Is said to be the worst kind of racism. Canadian racism is not among Europeans and West Africans, but between European Canadians and Indigenous people, as well as the Chinese. One of the biggest examples of institutional racism towards the Chinese is the Chinese head tax. The Chinese head tax is a fee in which each Chinese person who entered Canada would have to pay. It was implemented to discourage the immigration of Chinese people. However, this is not the worst thing that Canada has done in terms of discrimination. Arguably one of the most horrendous thing that Canada did was the creation and the use of residential schools. They were designed to take the “Indian” out of a child. Residential schools are not necessarily something that is taught about in schools because it is said to be something that Canada wishes to hide from its past. The final residential school didn’t close until 1996, this was only twenty years ago. In fact, there was not a federal apology to the aboriginal peoples until 2008. Residential schools were run by Christian churches to intentionally colonize aboriginal children. The first school that opened was shut down nine years later because they were not able to force their religion on to any of the kids. Seven years later the Canadian government reopened several new schools and forced non-native orphaned children to go there since the aboriginals refused to send their children to these schools. Aboriginal children were taken at an earlier age, forbidden to practice any aboriginal act, and were raised by complete strangers. According to Thomas Anderson “it is because [Aboriginal people] do not feel […] [that they] cannot govern [them] selves […] [and their] children will forever be a burden” (Anderson, 1844). Residential schools were put in place to help prevent their children from becoming a “burden”. Residential schools were not well kept they were dirty, unhealthy, and unsafe. There were allegations of rape and sexual abuse

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