Everyday Racism in Canada: Learning and Teaching Respect for Aboriginal People

For the past two decades I have focused on unlearning my own racism, educating for social justice, and more recently, researching creative responses to racism and other forms of oppression in communities across Canada and beyond. Despite federal multicultural policies, Royal Commission reports, and the contemporary liberal discourse of respect and acceptance, First Nations people are still targets of much racism in this country, and schools can be a site of resistance to the dominant ideologies that fuel this oppression. (Author)

Publication Date: 
2006
Pages: 
49-51
Volume: 
14
Issue: 
1
Journal Name: 
Multicultural Education