{"id":6312,"date":"2017-06-29T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:30:10","slug":"everyday-racism-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/06\/29\/everyday-racism-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Racism in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6314\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alexindigo\/2123523275\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6314 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/06\/2123523275_983f039f2b_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/06\/2123523275_983f039f2b_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2017\/06\/2123523275_983f039f2b_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Alex Indigo, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As described in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/article157368834.html\">an article<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Miami Herald<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a recent video from the inside of a doctor\u2019s clinic in Ontario has gone viral. In it, a woman can be seeing yelling at hospital staff, patients, and visitors, demanding that she her son sees a \u201cwhite doctor without brown teeth.\u201d In the video, the woman insists on a white doctor \u201cwho speaks English,\u201d and gets upset when others confront her over this discriminatory attitude; in fact, she claims that people there are attacking her for being white<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0rather than because of her behavior. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sociologist <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryerson.ca\/sociology\/about-us\/faculty\/faculty-bios\/teelucksinghc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheryl Teelucksingh\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of Ryerson University told the <em>Herald<\/em>\u00a0that everyday racism like this is starting to become more common in Canada. In the current political climate, people feel more emboldened to assert their whiteness in public spaces. For nonwhite professionals, this presents a difficult situation in which they have to prove their credentials, education, and training for high-skilled jobs more than white professionals would. Teelucksingh explains,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think people are feeling that there\u2019s a little bit more space now to question who\u2019s in positions of power, who\u2019s actually getting the jobs, those sorts of things.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As described in an article\u00a0from\u00a0The Miami Herald, a recent video from the inside of a doctor\u2019s clinic in Ontario has gone viral. In it, a woman can be seeing yelling at hospital staff, patients, and visitors, demanding that she her son sees a \u201cwhite doctor without brown teeth.\u201d In the video, the woman insists on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,85,14],"tags":[356,39110,39115,39111],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-canada","tag-inequality","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6315,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions\/6315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}