Preliminary Material / Ayan Abdulle and Anne Nelun Obeyesekere -- The Fairness of Shadows / Anne Nelun Obeyesekere -- An Exploratory Paper on Understanding Whiteness / Ayan Abdulle -- Languages Are Multiple / Christina Hutchinson -- Are We Doing Anti-Racism? / Qwyn MacLachlan -- Re-Centering Race in the Classroom / Raagini Appadurai -- A Journey into Anti-Racism / Tamla Young -- Addressing Systemic Inequities, Student Achievement, and Deficit Thinking within Ontario’s Urban and Priority High Schools / Katrina Rigelhof -- Breaking the Silence / Sevgi Arslan -- Viewing the Toronto Education System through an Anti-Racist Framework / Chanel Herbert -- Epistemic Salience of Anti-Racist Education / Marie McLeod -- Race and Racism in Education / Saynab Xasan -- All That’s Black Is Black / Brieanne Berry Crossfield -- About the Contributors / Ayan Abdulle and Anne Nelun Obeyesekere.

This collection of essays generates important enquiries into the teaching and practice of anti-racism education, by way of working through conversations, contestations, and emotions as presented by a diverse group of strong women committed to social justice work in their own right. Throughout the collection, contemporary educational issues are situated within personal-political, historical and philosophical conversations, which work to broach the challenges and possibilities for students, educators, staff, administrators, policy makers, and community members who engage in critical anti-racism education. This work diverges from the existing scholarship by way of bringing new insights to the theoretical possibilities of resistance and futurity as voiced through pedagogues, practitioners and scholars in anti-racism. In this book the authors speak to the importance of anti-racism discursivity in a time when even those who desire to engage this framework struggle to be heard; in a time when there are anti-racism policies in institutions, yet to speak anti-racism philosophy remains dangerous; and in a time when, to speak race and anti-racism, is considered to be stirring up trouble in the face of post-racial discourses.

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