... 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 ... blacks were continually stereotyped. This of course justified the white peoples continued enslavement of the black population. This racial knowledge held by the white population of the time a...

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