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Year in Review - 2021
From hosting our first virtual Congress, to advancing our work on equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization and releasing a new report on the value of our disciplines: check out our Year in Review to see what we’ve accomplished together.
Reflections on the practice of reconciliation
Guest blog by Crystal Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Classics, & Religion and The Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta.
Racism's touch: 'I can't quite put my finger on it' - Shirley Anne Tate
In an event organized by the University of Alberta's Black Graduate Students' Association, Tate will critically examine the academy’s ‘post-race’ sensibilities and question the quotidian transmission of racism through the flinching away from Black...
Participation, Representation, and Trust in Racialized or Marginalized Communities as Weapons Against Systemic Racism
Congress 2021 blog edition Systemic racism refers to racism that is embedded in the processes, laws, and regulations of an institution. It extends beyond individual attitudes or acts of racism to encompass broader patterns of harmful or exclusionary...
The Discrimination against Black Co-ops
Congress 2021 blog edition The Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation “Racial Justice and Cooperatives” open event webcast featured a powerful presentation, organised around visual stories, by Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Professor of Community...
Addressing White Supremacy: Anti-Racist Technologies
Congress 2021 blog edition The Canadian Communication Association’s “How to Make Your Technology Anti-Racist” open event webcast featured Charlton Mcllwain, Professor, Media, Culture, and Communications at NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology...
Combating Unconscious Bias and Systemic Racism
Congress 2021 blog edition Although – hopefully – most of us do not consciously or intentionally work to perpetuate inequality in the world, odds are that most of us at least sometimes say or do things that preclude diversity and exclude the ‘other.’...
Rethinking the contemporary university: possibilities for decolonization
Congress 2021 blog edition Today’s session “Examining Anti-Racist and Decolonial Possibilities in the Contemporary University” delivered a variety of perspectives from academics around the globe, on whether possibilities to decolonize contemporary...