Addressing Barriers to Modern Anti-Racist Work in Canada

Event Date: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT
Event Location: 
ATAC 1010
Event Fee: 
Free, Everyone Welcome
Event Contact Name: 
Karen Woychyshyn
Event Contact E-mail: 
kwoychys@lakeheadu.ca

 

"Addressing Barriers to Modern Anti-Racist Work in Canada" Through this paper, I think through the issues that are particularly pertinent to the current social context within which antiracist work is occurring. In particular, systemic racism is now firmly on the antiracist agenda across many different factions of identity. Thus, I approached this paper with an understanding of racism that is especially attuned to the persistence and yet elusiveness of systemic racism, specificities of racisms against different groups, and intersectionality; that is, the complex ways that various systems of oppressions work together. With this in mind, I examine three sets of conditions or concerns and their impact on antiracist work: 1. Whiteness as a barrier to antiracist work (see Hughey, 2009; Lawrence and Dua, 2005; Srivastava, 2005; DiAngelo, 2018); 2. liberal multiculturalist discourse (Thobani, 2007; Chen, 2019) upholding racism in Canada; and 3. The myth of meritocracy (Gilmour et al. 2012), the model minority (Wu, 2013), and neoliberal interests hindering antiracist work. Kristen Kowlessar MA Social Justice Studies, HBA Psychology PhD Sociology candidate Past President, LU Social Justice Students Tuesday, March 19th 1:00-2:30pm in ATAC 1010 Guests may also attend via ZOOM: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/6730430832?pwd=SlVmQnRmczg3N0UvSEZJTGVKMS8yUT09&omn=92339398289 Meeting ID: 673 043 0832 Passcode: 7777 Everyone Welcome 

 


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