For FAWQ’s Sake
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From: Frequently Asked White Questions
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In the introduction, authors Ajay Parasram and Alex Khasnabish discuss the challenges with providing and conducting antiracist education and their previous experience creating the Safe Space for White Questions (SSFWQ) workshop in 2019, and the goal of this book being to help white people understand race and how it helps everyone build the kind of world we all want to live in. Topics discussed include race, racism, white nationalism, white supremacy, and thinking about racial politics as a white person.
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Contributors
Ajay Parasram
Ajay Parasram is a multigenerational transnational byproduct of the British empire, with roots in South Asia, the Caribbean and the settler cities of Halifax, Ottawa and Vancouver. He is an associate professor in the Departments of International Development Studies, History and Political Science at Dalhousie University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), unceded Mi’kma’ki. His research interests surround the colonial present, or the many ways through which strings of historical colonial entanglements continue to tighten the limit of political action today, and how those strings might be undone.
Alex Khasnabish
Alex Khasnabish is a writer, researcher and teacher committed to collective liberation living in Halifax, on unceded and unsurrendered Mi’kmaw territory. He is a professor in sociology and anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on radical imagination, radical politics, social justice and social movements.
