Introduction
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In the introduction, Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean, and Verna St. Denis make clear their intentions for this collection, which are to elevate critical standpoints on racial inequality in Canada by drawing on critical race theory, anti-racism, anti-colonial theory and whiteness studies to help further illuminate the systemic racism across Canada and in Canadian institutions of all kinds. By examining the practices of whiteness within education, public health, social work and criminal justice, the chapters in this collection demonstrate how colonialism is ever-present and often plays out through white benevolence.
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Contributors
Amanda Gebhard
Amanda Gebhard is a white settler scholar and assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina. She has a long record of experience in antiracism education as a student, researcher and instructor in Education and Social Work Faculties. Amanda’s interdisciplinary research investigates racism and educational exclusions, the school/prison nexus and antiracist pedagogy and practice. She has published widely on racism and whiteness in education in the Canadian Prairies.
Sheelah McLean
Sheelah McLean, PhD, is a third-generation white settler who lives on Treaty 6 territory. Sheelah has worked in education for thirty years teaching high school, adult education, as well as graduate and undergraduate courses in antiracism at the University of Saskatchewan. Sheelah is also an organizer with the Idle No More network. As a scholar and community organizer, Sheelah’s work has focused on research projects and actions that address inequality, particularly focusing on how white dominance is created and maintained within a white settler society. Sheelah currently works as a curriculum developer for San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training.
Verna St. Denis
Verna St. Denis is a professor of education and special adviser to the president on antiracism/anti-oppression at the University of Saskatchewan, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in integrated antiracist education for many years. She is both Cree and Métis and a member of the Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation. Dr. St. Denis is a widely sought-after speaker on the topic of racism in education. Her research and scholarship are in antiracist and Indigenous education, and she has published extensively on these topics.
