Racism in Canada: the myth and the reality One of the things I find particularly irksome about the stereotype that Canadians have about themselves (ourselves) is that we are a fundamentally “nice” people – so nice, in fact, that we don’t really have a problem with racism. It is the case that Canada’s history of…
Loly Rico knows, firsthand, what it takes to stand up against oppression. Since her arrival in Canada from El Salvador, Loly Rico has worked resolutely to support and empower refugee women from diverse backgrounds. Her work is characterized by a strong commitment to social justice and the principles of anti-oppression and equity. Since 1991, Loly has served as…
Alok Mukherjee has been Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board since September 2005. He is the first South Asian to occupy this position. As a Vice President of the Ontario Association of Police Boards and Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association of Police Boards, Dr. Mukherjee is actively involved in efforts to promote community-based policing…
Grace-Edward Galabuzi is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at Ryerson University. He is also a research associate at the Centre for Social Justice in Toronto. He is the author of “Canada’s Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in…
Sunera Thobani is Associate Professor at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia. Since her appointment at UBC, Dr. Thobani has been committed to using an interdisciplinary approach in her teaching and research, and to maintaining her involvement in community and social justice activities. Dr. Thobani’s academic publications include…
Professor Izumi Sakamoto is a former Fulbright Scholar, a Michigan Society of Fellows Associate Fellow, and a “Community of Scholars” Fellow of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sakamoto’s training and practice span North America and Japan, and she brings interdisciplinary perspectives from social work, social psychology, and cultural psychology. Dr. Sakamoto’s current program of research…
Zoe Druick: The book posits that there is a fundamental denial of white privilege in the Canadian legal system, that the system is colour-blind. How did this situation come to be? Sherene Razack: To begin with, law has always worked in service of the colonisers. The first example that comes to mind is the British…
Ethnic groups have conventionally been constructed in ways that homogenize their experiences and erase the many distinctions, such as those of social class and gender, within them. There are commonalities of experience, no doubt, but at the same time there are vast differences that stem from the different identities. The social construction of an ethnic…
