To define racism, racial discrimination and racial separation. To describe the other forms of racism.

To understand how racism leads to self betrayal and self-deception. To explain the effect of racism on society.
To analyze the views of UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Racism is usually defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called races and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior, or superior.

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that ones own race is superior. Racism is where a person or group of people are abused physically, emotionally or mentally by people because of their race, nationality, beliefs, skin colour and ethnic origin.

People who believe in racism is called racist.

1. Individual

racism

- is any attitude or action whether intentional or unintentional, conscious or unconscious, which subordinates a person or group because of their color.

is any institutional policies, practices and structures in governments, businesses, unions, schools, churches, courts and law enforcement entities by which decisions are made as to unfairly subordinate persons of color while allowing other groups to profit from such actions. Example: Housing patterns, segregated schools, discriminatory employment and promotion policies, racial profiling, inequities in health care, segregated churches, and educational curriculum which ignore/distort the history of minorities.

3. .

Cultural racism

- is the individual and institutional

expression of the superiority of one groups cultural heritage over another (arts, crafts, language, traditions, beliefs and values).

- irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries (Oxford Dictionaries) - unreasonable fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. (Merriam-Webster)

-is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a bath room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home.

Segregation was really common in schools. Black children were not allowed to go to the same school as the white children.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa parks, are to two people that protested on the segregation. They both are a big part of history. They have a lot to do with why there is not so much racial segregation today.

inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.
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Apartheid = Separateness The separation of races

No right to vote. No ownership of land. No right to move freely. No right to free speech. No right to protest the government.

Apartheid separated the whites from the non-whites

Sharpville Massacres

1960 protest against Pass Laws Police opened fire, killing over 60 Africans (including women & children) in 30 seconds.

1976 protest by 20,00 children against teaching of Afrikaans in black schools.

Riots spread, over 600 killed.

More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Greeks and Romans made slaves of whom they considered inferior. Until the early 1900s, the Chinese viewed most foreigners as barbarians. From the 1700s to the early 1900s, Europeans believed black-, brown-, and yellow-skinned people had to be civilized by the superior whites.

The Nazis considered Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavic people such as the Russians, Ukrainians, Czechs and anyone else who was not an "Aryan" according to the contemporary Nazi race terminology to be subhuman. The Nazis rationalized that the Germans, being a super human race, had a biological right to displace, eliminate and enslave inferiors. Some 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. In the longer term, the Nazis wanted to exterminate some 3045 million Slavs.

An improvised camp for Soviet POWs. Between June 1941 and January 1942, the Nazis killed an estimated 2.8 million Red Army POWs, whom they viewed as "subhuman".

- a white supremacist group originating in the South after the Civil War. The KKK has been responsible for countless acts of terrorism, violence, and lynching all intended to intimidate, murder and oppress African Americans, Jews, and other minorities.

1. Genocide:
The most extreme form of systemic discrimination, by which deliberate attempts are made by authorities at mass murder of any national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

2. Slavery:
A system of social relations in which one person is the private property of another and can be bought and sold on a market.
US slavery was an extreme form of this:
Children Slaves Rape

could be taken from parents and sold

could be tortured and killed with almost no restraint of slaves was never a crime.

3. Second Class Citizenship

A system of giving different categories of people different citizenship rights on the basis of some attribute.
In the U.S., Jim Crow Laws in the South after the Civil War officially gave blacks and whites different rights. In the North, different treatment unofficially conferred different rights.

Jim Crow Laws

Definition: Laws that separated/segregated African Americans and other non-white racial groups. Some commonly segregated spaces as a result of Jim Crow were: schools public areas transportation restrooms restaurants

4. Semi-free labor
A system for including non-citizens in a labor market without giving them the rights and protections of citizenship.

Miners earning only a few dollars a day and being forced to be separate from their families for months or years at a time.

5.Discrimination
Unfair actions directed against people based on their race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, language, faith or sexual orientation.

Examples of discrimination and prejudice include:

Dominant white against black Dominant males against females Dominant rich against poor Dominant old against young ( and vice versa)

Racial discrimination shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

Racism occurs in present society because:

Lack of understanding between other peoples beliefs, culture and their past history. People arent taught to accept other people and treating others equally. People make fun of others: culture, ethnicity, skin colour, accent, appearance, etc.

The impacts include:

of

racism

Suicide Long-term Depression Insecurity Changing their appearance to fit in Abuse

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a United Nations convention. A third-generation human rights instrument, the Convention commits its members to the elimination of racial discrimination and the promotion of understanding among all races. Controversially, the Convention also requires its parties to outlaw hate speech and criminalize membership in racist organizations.

The Convention follows the structure of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Part 1 (Articles 1 7) commits parties to the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination and to promoting understanding among all races. Parties are obliged to not discriminate on the basis of race, not to sponsor or defend racism, and to prohibit racial discrimination within their jurisdictions. They must also review their laws and policies to ensure that they do not discriminate on the basis of race, and commit to amending or repealing those that do.

The Convention imposes a specific commitment on parties to eradicate racial segregation and the crime of apartheid within their jurisdictions (Article 3). Parties are also required to criminalize the incitement of racial hatred (Article 4), to ensure judicial remedies for acts of racial discrimination (Article 6), and to engage in public education to promote understanding and tolerance (Article 7).

Part 2 (Articles 8 16) governs reporting and monitoring of the Convention and the steps taken by the parties to implement it.

It establishes the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and empowers it to make general recommendations to the UN General Assembly. It also establishes a dispute-resolution mechanism between parties (Articles 11 13), and allows parties to recognise the competence of the Committee to hear complaints from individuals about violations of the rights protected by the Convention (Article 14).

UNESCO marks March 21 as the yearly International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in memory of the events that occurred on March 21, 1960 in Sharpeville, South Africa, where police killed student demonstrators peacefully protesting against the apartheid regime.

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