Former professor Robin DiAngelo’s book ‘White Fragility’ takes a reductive view on whiteness. This simplistic approach privileges a U.S.-centric view and ignores global experiences of whiteness.
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The NBA playoffs may resume Friday or Saturday following the Milwaukee Bucks’ boycott over the Jacob Blake police shooting.
The authors argue South Asian immigrants to Canada have become complicit in the state’s racial and capitalist agendas.
Anti-black violence exists against the backdrop of the political and cultural dehumanization of Black people. How did this happen and where do we go from here?
The recent furor from senior academics in response to a public lecture about the whiteness of music education reflects a longstanding race problem in music — it’s time to address this.
The difference in responses to tragedies reflects how immigrants are valued by their potential benefit to Canadian society, but this is not the only way to think about their worth as human beings.
Around the world, policing — as an institution — is being challenged. But calls to defund the police will fall short if they do not address the history of policing.
Stating that COVID-19 is a “Chinese” disease, dehumanizes and reinforces well-worn stereotypes of Chinese people as the “yellow peril.”
Every once in a while, the story that Beethoven was Black circulates in popular culture, but there’s no evidence to support this claim.
Even as skin-whitening products rebrand, they are still selling racism under the guise of wellness and youth.
Putting pressure on corporate sponsors is a tactic that has worked when it comes to changing racist team names. But it’s not enough to address systemic racism.
In the wake of protests about systemic racism, sports teams are under increased pressure to lose their racist nicknames. An Inuit scholar calls on the Edmonton Eskimos to do the right thing.
Young Black Canadian writers like Desmond Cole and Eternity Martis look at anti-Black racism on campus.
How much further study is required and how many witnesses need to be called to establish the reality of the violence of racism?
The University of Waterloo sent out a statement that banned the use of the N-word on its campus, including classes. They did not consult Black faculty before doing so.
As anti-racism protests take aim at statues of slave owners and racist figures, Canada needs to reassess how it remembers its past.
Reparations to African Canadians for enslavement and historical injustices need not be financial payments to every individual African Canadian. Instead funds for specific groups are a viable option.
Another world is possible when we defund and reimagine policing as we know it. A review of police budgets could mean more money towards community initiatives.
Recording and bearing witness to a Black person’s death from police violence is in itself traumatizing.
There is no good police versus bad police. Police are police. They are the states’ organ of repression. There are a myriad of better scenarios than the current one.
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
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Professor, Departments of English Langauge and Literature & Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor, Sociology, Brock University
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PhD Candidate, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Gender, Religion and Critical Studies, University of Regina
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Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Education, McGill University
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Associate Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute, University of Toronto
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Professor of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Professor, University of Alberta
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Founder of the DISE Collective & Associate Professor, Global Development & Political Economy, University of Toronto
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Second Century Chair Professor of Law, Author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, Southwestern Law School