206 Anti-Racism
Courses
In the Wings: Role Play Exercise for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Resurgence and Allyship by Judy El-Mohtadi, Sally El Sayed, Jamal Koulmiye-Boyce, Felicity Hauwert, Khadija El Hilali, and Nadia Abu Zahra (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
“In The Wings” is an anti-oppression workshop organized by students, faculty, and recent graduates from Carleton University and Ottawa University. Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to join break-out rooms and enact a role-play exercise about racism and resistance co-authored by students, faculty, and recent graduates from Canadian post-secondary institutions. This role-play seeks to facilitate critical and creative reflections about systemic racism, hierarchies of knowledge and expertise, and structural inequities embedded in universities. Following the role-play, there will be a group discussion and conversation about how students and faculty experience these systemic issues in their everyday lives. We anticipate that these discussions and conversations will involve knowledge-sharing about the ongoing legacies of oppression within which pedagogy and research take place as well as the potential of education as a decolonial practice.
Modules
“I Can’t Breathe”: International Responses to the BLM Movement∗ by Ibis Sierra Audivert and Hannah A. Matangos (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
This module is intended for students interested in having a global perspective on the impact of George Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Students will survey BLM in the U.S. context and its international iterations around the globe by addressing the complexity of race in relation to social justice, political oppression, and the role of the media and technology. Through the assigned materials, students will grasp the ways in which racism manifests across cultural contexts and local histories, with particular attention to the regions of Central Europe (Germany and France), East Asia (China, South Korea, and Japan) and Latin America and the Caribbean (Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic).
Supplemental Resources
Toolkits for Equity Series∗ by Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
While a growing awareness of racial disparities has resulted in a groundswell of support for inclusivity in scholarly publishing, the resulting initiatives would be more effective if our professional associations were able to provide training materials to help transform our workplaces and organizational cultures. As evidence of the interest and need, the project leaders of this guide have been contacted by individuals across scholarly publishing asking for resources about how to replicate workplace equity groups, what to do in cases of discrimination or microaggressions, and how to begin conversations about race. In support of necessary change, the Toolkits for Equity project leaders embarked on creating three toolkits to provide resources for