Sentences with phrase «racialized society»

In a similar vein, messages that deemphasize racism and discrimination in order to promote equal treatment among all races (e.g., «everyone is equal»), may leave youth ill - equipped to navigate a racialized society (Hughes et al. 2006a, b).

According to Diamond, a sociologist, there are broader structural mechanisms at work in America that promote a racialized society.

Growing up in a racialized society has an emotional impact on students of color and leads to unconscious biases that affect how all of us perceive ourselves and others.

Not exact matches

Finally, consider the militarization of our society's response to recent racialized conflict: From tear - gassed protesters and check points on Ferguson thruways to calls for a militarized response to immigrant children fleeing oppression in neighboring countries.

Experience shows that segregated schools are always «racialized» schools — that is to say, such schools are part and parcel of the social construction of «race» (and racism) in American society.

It is critical that the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees not get lost in all this regulatory alphabet soup.

: Reflections on the Law Society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group Report

The statement of principles has faced vocal opposition from some legal scholars and lawyers since it was introduced by the law society this fall as part of an initiative to combat the barriers faced by racialized licensees.

As co-chairman of the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees working group, Anand presented the group's final report to Convocation on Dec. 2, 2016 and obtained the approval of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

A lack of protection from racist speech for racialized professionals impoverishes society as a whole.

Nearly 60 per cent of the youngest lawyers in Ontario are women, a significant demographic shift driven in large part by the increasing number of «racialized» women entering the profession, according to a report released by the Law Society of Upper Canada last week.

In the consultation process of the report, the law society heard from racialized licensees who provided examples of discrimination and harassment during articling and the first few years of practice.

The Law Society of Upper Canada is trying to bring more attention to issues of diversity and equity in the profession through a working group and reports such as Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees.

The distinction between legal and illicit marijuana and the asymmetrical criminalization of marijuana will only serve to perpetuate disproportionate enforcement of the law on the young, marginalized and racialized members of our society.

On a smaller scale, the final report of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group includes a recommendation that the Law Society, every four years, develop and publish an inclusion index which would «include legal workplaces» assessments of their diversity and inclusion - related achievements and that would allow legal workplaces to demonstrate their performance and progress.»

Of particular note in this context is the decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Selwyn Milan McSween, which found explored the systemic disadvantages experienced by racialized licensees.

As a racialized lawyer, the Law Society of Upper Canada's «Challenges Facing Racialized Licensees: Final Report» has given me and many other racialized lawyerracialized lawyer, the Law Society of Upper Canada's «Challenges Facing Racialized Licensees: Final Report» has given me and many other racialized lawyerRacialized Licensees: Final Report» has given me and many other racialized lawyerracialized lawyers a voice.

At the same time the Law Society of Ontario announced this new duty, it advertised itself as a systemically racist bar and labeled licensees like me as «racialized.»

Today, our profession's resistance to the recruitment and advancement of racialized lawyers, especially among the black and indigenous communities who suffer daily overt racism in Canadian society, is a wrong that must be righted.

«I am not surprised that we have heard from a small but vocal segment of the legal profession and other commentators about the words I am proud to have drafted and insisted upon, and which passed after a healthy debate at Convocation,» says Anand, who is a co-chairman of the law society's Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group.

In 2013, Stratcom conducted an in - depth, multi-modal research project to understand the challenges facing racialized licensees in Ontario for the Law Society of Upper Canada.

The creation of these Statements, with the greatest respect to the Law Society's Racialized Licensees Working Group, is not sufficient.

Background: In September 2017, Ontario lawyers were informed by the Law Society of Ontario that they were expected to comply with a set of strategies adopted by the Law Society to address barriers to admission and within the profession faced by racialized licensees and other equality seeking groups.

So, what did the Law Society do when told by Stratcom that some racialized members of the professions felt that» the very act of studying racialization as a distinct phenomenon may produce stronger perceptions of its importance than are warranted in reality» or, in simple terms, that the research may tend to cause problems rather than solve them?

«In a 2004 report to the Law Society (the «Kay Report»), Professor Fiona Kay found that racialized lawyers are more likely than non-racialized lawyers to report experiencing disrespectful remarks by judges or other lawyers.

Identify barriers to and facilitate active involvement of racialized and Aboriginal lawyers in the volunteer functions of the Society, on Council and on other Committees;

Another of the association's submissions to the law society dealt with the regulator's report on issues faced by racialized licensees.

The same student opined that the reputation of the Law Society would suffer «when a disproportionate number of LPP students are found to be minorities, racialized groups, etc.» The LPP will perpetuate the systemic disadvantages that already face students from equity seeking groups.

And so the law society in Ontario conducted an inquiry into the status of racialized licensees, and discovered what many of us have been saying all along — there is a widespread and pervasive problem in the legal industry related to racialized lawyers.

For example, the Community Liaison Report provided to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Challenges Faced By Racialized Licensee Working Group reported, among other things, that:

The Law Society of Upper Canada created the Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group in 2012 to identify the challenges faced by racialized lawyers and paralegals and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all careRacialized Licensees Working Group in 2012 to identify the challenges faced by racialized lawyers and paralegals and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all careracialized lawyers and paralegals and consider strategies for enhanced inclusion at all career stages.