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Sherene Razack

Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:23am by admin No Comment

  Sherene Razack is professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests lie in the area of race and gender issues in the law.  Her courses include ‘Race, Space and Citizenship;’ ‘Race and Knowledge Production’ and ‘Racial Violence…

Sherene Razack on colour-blindness, white privilege in the Canadian legal system and multiculturalism

Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:17pm by admin No Comment

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…