We put together a list of staff recommendations of our podcast for your summer listening. This is a collage of the guests of those episodes.
(The Conversation Canada)
From culture shock to a lack of family support, slow progress on diversity in police recruitment reflects real challenges in a tough field.
A Palestinian flag flies near the Peace Tower during a march for Gaza rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 4, 2023.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
The Canadian government’s refusal to include a description of anti-Palestinian racism sends the message that the struggles of Palestinians don’t matter.
It is important that we in Canada understand our history so that we know how to move forward with clear solutions.
(Shutterstock)
Canada was never designed to be a space for unequivocal diversity, equity or inclusion. Rather, DEI initiatives are based on policies that maintain an unequal status quo.
Though it seemed like music for the inner cities, 2-Tone sought to take its message of inclusion to young people in less racially mixed small towns and rural areas too.
While literary texts can nurture deep understandings about racism and power, it’s not enough to provide students with racially and culturally diverse texts.
(Rasheeq Mohammad)
When teachers are self-aware of how their identities impact their values, beliefs and experiences, they are better prepared to help students build bridges between their lives and literature.
The DEI label is often used to play upon racial resentments and is increasingly being appropriated as a dog whistle.
(AP Photo/John Hanna)
The term DEI has increasingly been co-opted to attack and undermine the positions, qualifications and abilities of racialized people.
Image credits: AP/Hatem Ali (Palestinians displaced by the Israeli offensive in Gaza in Rafah in Jan)., AP/Chris Pizzello (Taraji P. Henson), THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick (sign at climate protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa), CP/Spencer Colby (police at a pro-Palestinian protest), Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP (rainbow-haired “Stop Cop City” protestor with fist raised), DCMR logo.
The DCMR team has been busy prepping new episodes and next week, we start releasing episodes for season 7, taking our anti-racist lens to the news and issues occupying a lot of our minds these days.
The Ghost Reader.
Recovering Women’s Contributions to Media Studies is a new book which looks at the contributions of women in the media.
ClassicStock / Alamy
Mae D Huettig, Romana Javitz and Shirley Graham DuBois were instrumental in their respective media fields but very few of us will be aware of their individual contributions.
A study saw racialized students in Ontario French immersion programs write monologues and stories about their experiences, and also invited immersion stakeholders like teachers and parents to give feedback on
race and racism in Ontario immersion programs.
(CDC)
The silence of some Canadian universities in addressing antisemitism, in particular when considered alongside active approaches toward equity and racial justice, needs to be addressed.
A social media narrative that anti-racism and equity work is to blame for a high school principal’s death could mean challenges ahead for equity workers.
(Christina Wocintech/Unsplash)
The media storm that is building on equity work after the death of a Toronto school principal will test Canadians’ commitment to doing the work needed to be done to address racism.
People visit the Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act exhibit at the Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver on June 30, 2023. The exhibit features hundreds of special identity documents called C.I. certificates that were issued to Chinese residents by the Canadian government.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Anti-racist programs and fines have failed to end racism in European soccer. Part of the problem is that Black players have little representation higher up the sport’s hierarchy.
A woman raises her fist during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Queens, New York.
Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd murder, in 2020, Black social workers are finding they are alone in coping with their trauma.
Bans on critical race theory target teachers and curriculums.
Kobus Louw via Getty Images
A new database shows that efforts to ban critical race theory are pervasive throughout the United States.
LSU’s Angel Reese, right, and LaDazhia Williams react during an NCAA Women’s Final Four semifinals basketball game against Virginia Tech on March 31, 2023, in Dallas.
AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
Asking the mostly Black women’s basketball team at LSU to share the limelight with the white team it beat in the championship game represents a double standard, a scholar of sports and race says.
Don’t Call Me Resilient is getting a little newsier. Photo credits clockwise: Chad Hipolito/CP (215 heart); Bebito Matthews/AP (protest in New York City), DCMR logo, Tandem X Visuals/Unsplash (Regina, Sask.), Sean Kilpatrick/CP (Ottawa 2022), Geoff Robins/CP (London, Ont. 2022), Spenser H/Unsplash (2017).
Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Boké Saisi, The Conversation
Host Vinita Srivastava goes deep with academic experts and those with lived experience to bring you your weekly dose of news, from an anti-racist perspective.
Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy; Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health; and Research Director, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta