was not as propionate in Canada as it was in the United States, racism is a part of

Canada’s history. There are three main aspects to black oppression. They are institutional

racism, racist knowledge and power relations.

To begin there is no such thing as race. It is a social construction and is in no way

biological. Individuals and societies have created and the used race as a means to oppress

and subjugate another group of people. Racial oppression is when a group of people

dominates another through the use of race. This dominate group receives various benefits.

The blacks are a case of this racial oppression, because they were turned into slaves

because of the colour of their skin.

It did not start this way of course. When the blacks came to North America they

were not slaves. After a while however slavery laws were passed and that enabled the

white masters to turn the blacks into slaves . This is the first example of the institutional

racism used to enslave the blacks. There were several other reasons for this. Another is

that it was purely for reasons that the blacks were enslaved. Th

racial knowledge that the population received about blacks. Various stereotypes were

benefits of their oppression of the blacks. Even today were everyone is considered equal

black population. The various ideas and stereotypes that these white people planted into

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