How can white people be involved in antiracist struggles without centring themselves?
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Chapter 8 asks the question, how can white people be involved in antiracist struggles without centering themselves? Discussing topics including the problematic positions of being the saviour or the penitent, understanding how to make your privilege work against white supremacy, grifting and grifters, respectability politics and political gatekeeping, and collective liberation.
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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.
