*Racialization, Winant, Myles*

Winant and Miles are very interesting with the way they break down race. Very similar in thoughts with a few differences. Their  notion of “race” is very similar to my perspective of race. Race being an ideology, something that exists because we make it come alive in our everyday practices today. Who gives us the right to shove people in to different racial categories without also considering their feelings?

Politics of the Borders

Immigration in Canada is a complex situation. Immigration is responsible for decreasing the amount of “foreigners” entering the country and finding all the illegal immigrants and deporting them. However immigration has been growing rapidly in Canada throughout the past five years. If Migration continues to grow from people of all beliefs, creed and races; we could then ask…What is the purpose of border security?

Stuart Hall-Language and Representation

     Stuart speaks on Media and Cultural Representation

My reflection is about the concept of language by Stuart Hall that we discussed in class. After class discussions I decided to research on Stuart Hall himself. Not only did I like his concept and the whole ideology behind language but I sensed he has lots of experiences with races other than his own.

Reflection on AfricVille

   I wanted to write on the video we saw in class concerning the history behind Africville and the history behind the Black people in Nova Scotia. When I came here for school, I was wondering why are all the blacks segregated and why do they stick together amongst themselves? But after seeing the video, I realized why; It seems as if for a very long period of time, the blacks in Halifax has felt racialized, deprived and in the video they seem like the repressed group in Halifax. Although this video does not give every little detail about the history of blacks in Halifax, it is no surprise that these same blacks are the ones who flock community housing and all the social free benefits of the Halifax Society. I am not implying other races do not share these benefits either, I am saying that if they were given the same privileges of others in the society, some may have been better off. Because Africville clearly had the visible minority in it compromising of one set of people; Afro-Nova Scotians.

Multiculturalism-A struggle for meaning

Banerji’s sees it as this whole ideology of exotic cultures fusing into a more dominant place where whiteness exists. The pictures of samosis and steel pans may come to mind, perhaps the pictures of different women wearing their cultural gowns/dresses may come to come. Have the Canadian government really embraced this whole notion of multiculturalism? Or do we just like the idea of it? When I go on the Canadian websites, I see this word “tolerant”. Is that the word we really use to fully accept individualities or this tolerant phenomenon comes in when it’s convenient?  But what exactly do we mean by a multi-cultural society?

True Size of Africa

It was definitely a new learning experience about the analysis of the world map in class. I have never taken an in depth look at if the sizes of these countries are really what the designers of these map seems to be? But I was wondering why would they “lie”?  After being in class I did realize that Africa is massive compared to the image perceived on maps or globes. Africa is bigger than China, USA, India, Bangladesh, Greece, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Nepal out together!

Race - Quite Complex

Winant and Miles are very interesting with the way they break down race. Very similar in thoughts with a few differences. Their notion of “race” is very similar to my perspective of race. Race being an ideology, something that exists because we make it come alive in our everyday practices today. Who gives us the right to shove people in to different racial categories without also considering their feelings? We as human beings go under what’s “real” and “false” whether it can be proven or not. Why are we still debating race and the ethics of racism is we can’t even prove scientifically the traits of different races. It just draws to the conclusions that we could be absurd human beings with using science only when it comes efficient and convenient for us.