The Cholera outbreaks which dominated Upper and Lower Canada from 1832 to 1866, was responsible for an extensive overhaul of the relationship between the public and private sphere in terms of government intervention in people’s lives, the role of private sector charity, and the discretionary power associated with quarantines. Leading up to the Cholera epidemics the industrialization of Canadian cities such as Montreal, Quebec City, and Toronto, accelerated urbanization as rural living Canadians and
In this historiographical essay, I aim to discuss and bring forward issues dealing with the United States’ (U.S.) complex history between African-Americans and housing. Urban social policy and housing are intertwined into the fabric of American history. In the Twentieth-century, the New Deal policies and programs of the 1930s allowed the federal government to adopt wholesale changes to the existing urban landscape. Large-scale federal intervention in housing policy had positive effects and New Deal
ntersectional, a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1995 in her essay, "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color" is used to describe using multiple characteristics of an individual's identity to understand how society and identity are constructed. Through her work she allows the audience to better understand discrimination and privilege as different aspects of an individual's identity combined are what describes and forms a person's distinctive
the Law Barring Thousands of People From Public Spaces (2015), The End of Public Space: One Law to Ban Them All (2014), Pavement Injustice: The Tyranny of On-the-Spot Fines (2012), and The Liberal
Racism and racial discrimination is a prevalent issue that negatively affects certain aspects of the health of ethnic minorities. We see this issue recurring amongst Indigenous Australians, migrants and refugees. Racism refers to the beliefs, practices and types of behaviours that underlie unfair and avoidable inequalities towards groups in society based on race, ethnicity, culture or religion (Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), 2015). There are a number of aspects of health that racism and
One of legend leader who was an activist by the name Rosa Parks once said, “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully we shall overcome. Overcoming racism is a journey that needs the current generation to understand how it was formed and what is continuously making it exist in the world at large. Having a background on its’ construction will help us decide how we want ourselves and our children to approach it and conquer its tragedies
institutions and the dynamics of power in relation to other social groups and individuals. Her second publication, an important collaboration with Margret Anderson was Race, Class and Gender : An Anthology came in 1992. This book is a compilation of essays on the intersectionality of Race, Class and Gender. Her third publication Fighting words : Black women and the Search for Justice came in 1998. Fighting words gave insight to the injustice against black women within the black community itself. The
learning) to nothing short of communal empowerment (the museum as an instrument for social change).” The power to drive social change is what both places museums in a position of power, and in a position to fight systemic power issues. By drawing the public in through tourist
This essay examines how inequality is reproduced in the lives of urban poor under three strands: aspirations which are reflective of internalized attitude about the objective probabilities of getting ahead, language use which is restricted, devoid of reasoning and negotiation skills in institutional settings and organization of daily life which is almost always concentrated upon basic survival. I argue that each of these strands affirms and reproduces inequality in their interaction with larger social
More specifically, Hurston “is able to subvert a monological view of the African-American as produced only by dominant discourses of racism. In acknowledging the multiple discourses available to her, Hurston also carves out a space for agency in what others would define as a determined field” (O’Connor). Hurston’s alienation is not something she thinks needs to be fixed. She has accepted it and uses it, she mentions, “I do not mind