- What is racial innocence? Compare common understandings of racism and explain how racial innocence differs and allows us to understand racism differently. Define the concept (and be sure to focus on its tenets), and explain (providing a couple of examples for each) how aspects of racial innocence uphold systems and structures of white supremacy. 2.Explain the role of the criminal legal system within a settler colonial context. Define settler colonialism and its aims, and then consider how these are enacted via policing, criminal law, incarceration, and violence against women and girls. 3.Using the concepts of racial innocence and slow violence, discuss the debate surrounding whether Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls fits the legal definition of genocide. Does a framework of racial innocence allow us to deny or refute such findings? If so, why? Does the concept of the slow violence of state organized racial crime allow us to see the matter differently? Explain drawing on the findings from the National Inquiry's legal supplement. 4.What are the promises and perils of advocating for legal reform to achieve social justice? What are the political, social, and cultural terms of success for achieving legal reform (e.g., what types of legal arguments are successful and what norms do they reaffirm and/or challenge)? What types of changes are achievable through law, and what remains largely unchanged? What are the implications, in terms of state power, of seeking legal reform? As well, can Canadian law be a viable tactic for achieving feminist outcomes and advancing Indigenous justice?
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