[DOWNLOAD] "Obscurantism in Action: How the Ontario Human Rights Commission Frames Racial Profiling." by Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Obscurantism in Action: How the Ontario Human Rights Commission Frames Racial Profiling.
Author : Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Release Date : January 22, 2006
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 234 KB

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ABSTRACT/RESUME The phenomenon of racial profiling in Ontario has long been acknowledged by members of racialized communities, progressive activists, and others--but official acknowledgment was always withheld. This changed in late 2003 when the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) produced a report stating in no uncertain terms that the practice of racial profiling is an extant reality. Notwithstanding the virtues of this departure from past patterns of official denial, a critical reading of the OHRC report reveals key areas in which the motivations, scope, and effects of profiling are fundamentally misunderstood. More specifically, the report frames racial profiling as (1) security-centred, (2) ubiquitous, and (3) dysfunctional. This article critically interrogates these three frameworks, and in the process, elucidates the limitations of state-driven "anti-racism" initiatives in Canada.