Thesaurus

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definitions of terms used in thesaurus entries

• SCOPE NOTE: explains HOW the term has been used to index items in the library database; defines the term
• USE: denotes a preferred term or phrase
• USED FOR: indicates terms or phrases that are NOT used to index items in the library database; these terms or phrases are considered synonymous with the indicated preferred term (only use "preferred terms" when searching the library database)
• BROADER TERM: broader or more general terms or phrases
• NARROWER TERM: narrower or more specific terms or phrases; a subset of the indicated broader term
• RELATED TERM: a term or phrase that is conceptually or associatively linked with the indicated preferred term

Thesaurus: 1501 entries.

QUEBEC (Search for related entries in the library)

• BROADER TERM(S)

CENTRAL CANADA

PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES

• NARROWER TERM(S)

MONTREAL

RACE (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: A social contruct tied to racialization. Racial categories, including 'visible minority', 'South Asian', and 'white', are constructed through processes of racialization embedded in daily interaction, ideologies, policies and practices.

• NARROWER TERM(S)

RACIALIZATION

RACISM

• RELATED TERM(S)

RACE DISCRIMINATION

SOCIAL LOCATION

VISIBLE MINORITIES

RACE BIAS 

• USE

RACISM

RACE DISCRIMINATION (Search for related entries in the library)

• BROADER TERM(S)

DISCRIMINATION

• RELATED TERM(S)

AFFIRMITIVE ACTION PROGRAMS

RACE

RACISM

• USED FOR

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 

• USE

RACE DISCRIMINATION

RACIAL MINORITIES 

• USE

VISIBLE MINORITIES

RACIALIZATION (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: A process of signification in which human being are categorized into "races" by reference to real or imagined phenotypical or genetic differences (Miles 1987:7)

• BROADER TERM(S)

RACE

• RELATED TERM(S)

COLONIALISM

RACISM

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION

• USED FOR

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE

RACISM (Search for related entries in the library)

Scope Note: An ideology that ascribes negatively evaluated characteristics in a deterministic manner to a group that is additionally identified as being in some way biologically distinct (Miles 1982:7).

• BROADER TERM(S)

PREJUDICES

RACE

• RELATED TERM(S)

ETHNOCENTRISM

RACE DISCRIMINATION

RACIALIZATION

• USED FOR

RACE BIAS

RADICAL FEMINISM (Search for related entries in the library)

• BROADER TERM(S)

FEMINISM

• RELATED TERM(S)

PATRIARCHY

RAPE 

• USE

SEXUAL ABUSE