Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education Dispatches from the Field

Foreword
Diane Longboat

Introduction: Spatial and Abolitionist Invitations to Race and Field

Arlo Kempf

Part One: Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Education & Learning

Chapter One: Un/found/ed

Amanda Buffalo

Chapter Two: Deconstructing the ‘Other’: Truth Telling as Reconciliation

Heather Watts

Chapter Three: Teacher Unions and Anti-Racism Education in a Neoliberal Society

Olivia Darwin

Chapter Four: We Are All Racists: Calling Out and Undoing Whiteness in Teacher Education

H.L.J. Tsang & Ardavan Eizadirad

Part Two: Unsettling Curriculum

Chapter Five: What's Wrong with the Alternative Curriculum?

Cecilia Cheung

Chapter Six: The Persistence of Multicultural Rhetoric in Curriculum: An Analysis of the Changes to the Grade 10 History Curriculum from 1973 to 2018

Serothy Ramachandran

Chapter Seven: Indigenous Linguicide: An Ongoing Canadian Project

Scarlett Jean Louise Mackay

Chapter Eight: When Aunties Speak: Political Listening Matters

Clelia Rodriguez

Part Three: The Mask of Multiculturalism

Chapter Nine: Multicultural Education: A Tool for Colonial Violence in Canadian Schools

Meagan Hamilton

Chapter Ten: School as a Raceless Institution; The Operations of Multiculturalism on the Invisibilizing of Black Youth

Verne Hippolyte-Smith

Chapter Eleven: Multiculturalism in Contemporary Canadian School Boards

Vinuja Sritharan

Part Four: Constructions and Reconstructions

Chapter Twelve: The Nexus of Post-Racialism, White Supremacy, and Misogynoir in Education Destiny Mae Ramos-Alleyne

Chapter Thirteen: Deconstructing Chinese International Students’ Silence: Critical Race Theory, White Supremacy, Modern Minority Myth

Hong Shu

Chapter Fourteen: The Humanizing and Liberatory Violence of Authentic Race Discussions

Joe Pack

Conclusion: Dispatches from a Field of the Past

Heather Watts

Contributor Bios

Index

Biography

Arlo Kempf is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada.

Heather Watts is a third-year doctoral student in social justice education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada.

"This collection explores topics that are familiar and central to those who study social justice education with refreshingly unique scholarly voices and approaches that integrate the personal and the pedagogical. A fantastic teaching resource that will open up conversations in classrooms and within professional development reading groups."

- Özlem Sensoy, Professor and Faculty Chair of Education

 

"In this age of Conservative takeover of public education, Arlo Kempf and Heather Watts’ new edited collection, Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education: Dispatches from the Field, is a powerful indictment of White Supremacy and its impact on schooling and education. We cannot have a democracy founded on racism and then ask us critical educators to be color blind. Let there be no doubt that race is about White Supremacy and the ‘expectations of Whiteness’ with its conformity, regulation, policing, surveillance, disciplining, and punishment of different bodies.  The best antidote to fighting educational injustice and inequities in schooling and education is not only to speak about social justice but also to embark on concrete educational practice for human liberation. As educators, this book gives us food for thought that by not fighting White supremacy we perpetuate racism, gaslighting, and anti-woke fantasies in our school systems. It is a must-read for all serious about the education of young learners with a willingness and sincerity to do something fundamental and to create new educational futurities for all."

-George J. Sefa Dei, Professor of Social Justice Education and Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, OISE, University of Toronto