Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies by George J. Sefa Dei, Mairi McDermott

By George J. Sefa Dei, Mairi McDermott

This selection of essays invitations readers to imagine via severe questions relating anti-racism schooling, comparable to: How does anti-racism schooling centre race as an analytic and at the same time paintings with a number of websites of oppression, with no reifying hierarchies of distinction? How can anti-racism schooling be engaged to talk to ancient questions of energy and privilege, inside traditional education practices? How can we realize anti-racism schooling in its many iterations?

In this e-book the authors discover the data that constitutes anti-racism schooling and the ways that wisdom constitutive of anti-racism schooling turns into embodied via specific pedagogues. The authors are anti-racism educators with studies in various settings: the chapters disguise a variety of fields and socio-historic geographies, deal with modern academic matters, and are positioned inside personal-political, old and philosophical conversations.

Anti-racism schooling is a discursive stance and steeped in politics that form and are formed by means of daily conversations, theories, and practices. The essays during this assortment paintings via a number of the probabilities and boundaries of accomplishing counter-hegemonic schooling for transformative studying. Readers will observe lived studies, idea, perform and significant reflexivity.

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G. being Mo and Rashid’s ancestral home). A coded, racist discourse is (re) produced by referring to the film as ‘too dark’, as opposed to too serious, too heavy, too violent, etc. And this coded discourse that marks the racialized body is necessarily (re)produced by white men mostly, who in this context are afforded the privilege of seeing “their race as unmarked, as an irrelevant or subordinate category of analysis” (Barnard 2004, p. 4). A racialized non-white man attending the film would perhaps be less likely to describe it as ‘too dark’ because in all likelihood he would understand the consequences being played out on film as real, even if he never experienced them, because racialized individuals cannot afford to see their race as unmarked or irrelevant.

With the degree to which sexual tolerance and homosexuality itself has been whitened, the annexing of these whitened racialized 3 Homonormativity Inside Out: Reading Race and Sexuality… 35 individuals who espouse dominant racist discourses means that homophobia and sexual intolerance become increasingly racialized with non-whites (King 2009). Subordinated gays also consolidate whiteness to obtain, for example, the privilege that is bought with the currency of whiteness or to promote racist ideals of ‘good’ citizenship by distancing oneself from the Other.

A. (2007). The relevance of race for the study of sexuality. In G. E. Haggerty & M. ), A companion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer studies. Wiley Online Library. ch6. Gosine, A. (2012). FOBS, banana boy, and the gay pretenders: Queer youth navigate sex, ‘race’, and nation in Toronto, Canada. In M. Fitzgerald & S. ), Queerly Canadian: An introductory reader in sexuality studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press. Inside Out LGBT Film Festival. (2012). ca/about-us/ overview King, S.

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