HIST 305/AA (Fall 2024): RACE & GENDER/CDN HISTORY
As a settler colony, Canada is built around multiple and intersecting forms of inequality. This course focuses on the discursive, legal, and material construction of the racial and gender hierarchies that represent two of the major fault lines of the Canadian social project. It examines the lives and experiences of Canadian women and men marginalized because of their race, gender and/or sexuality. By looking at people on the margins, this course explores the intersections of gender, race, and space, and speaks to two key issues of today: equality and justice. Beginning with the 1876 adoption of the Indian Act, the legal framework that codified the relationship between Canada and the various Indigenous nations whose territory it claims, we will examine the evolution of whiteness and its exclusions, settler colonialism, and racism. We will also explore the difficult integration and exploitation of migrant communities, women and LGBTQ+ communities in Canada.
- Teacher: MARIE-HÉLÈNE VANIER