Becoming an Antiracist Educator : The Life and Work of Timothy J. Stanley / edited by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Mark T.S. Currie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Currie, Mark T. S., editor.

Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas, editor.

Stanley, Timothy J., 1953- honoree.

Series:

Education (University of Ottawa)

Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stanley, Timothy J., 1953-.

Stanley, Timothy J.

Racism in education--Canada.

Racism in education.

Anti-racism--Study and teaching--Canada.

Anti-racism.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, 2026.

Summary:

"This collection is a thank you of sorts to Stanley for all the racial and social justice work he has taken up over his career and for everything he has generously shared with us. More than that, though, this collection is our effort to pass on to wider and future audiences some formative lessons that all scholars can and should learn from his antiracist education scholarship. The argument Stanley makes is that racism creates race—not the other way around—by applying labels and meanings to the differences we see between ourselves and other people (Stanley, 2011). The process of racialization occurs when people are categorized into labelled groups (i.e., race) based on features (e.g., skin colour, culture, religion, place of origin, or language) that are deemed to be differences. Stanley (2012) explains that “processes of cultural representation, knowledge-making, and social organization make ‘race’” (p. 216). Expanding on this idea, he states that “‘race’ differences may appear natural, constant, and obvious, but they are in fact extremely dynamic and contextually specific. What is obvious in one time and place can be simply invisible in another” (p. 216). A key point to understand from Stanley’s discussion is that racialization is always relational; categories of race are created in relation to other people. Furthermore, “even though over time people may adopt racialized categories as their own, racializations are always inescapable ascriptions” (p. 216). Stanley emphasizes that the way people identify themselves is important, indeed, but understanding how a racialized category came to be will inevitably involve recognizing that category’s relationship with another racialized category in terms of the privileges and/or exclusions they create for us and for others. In varying contexts, different racializations are read and made to feel to greater or lesser degrees that they belong and/or are excluded. Throughout Stanley’s (2012) work, there is extensive investigation into the observation that “people’s bodies, and hence the extent to which they are alleged to belong within the imagined community of the nation, are read in relation to myriad representations that constitute the landscape of collective remembering” (p. 215). The landscape across Canada is dominated by settler colonial markers that are normalized and appear permanent (e.g., English-language and anglicized street names and signs; streets and buildings named after white, often male people; paved streets in grid patterns that work to control and delineate private and public properties; infrastructure that supports the division of nature and not-nature). These markers contribute to making racialized white Euro-Canadians appear “as properly and naturally belonging within the spaces of the Canadian nation-state, while marking those racialized differently as ‘Other,’ either as newcomers whose presence needs explanation or as outsiders who can never belong” (p. 215). Such processes of Othering are at the core of Stanley’s theorizing of racisms as essentializing exclusions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION / Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Mark T. S. Currie

PART I: SHAPING ANTIRACIST APPROACHES

CHAPTER 1 Banalities and Multiplicities: Applying Tim Stanleys Work in and Across Places / Bryan Smith

CHAPTER 2 A Letter to Maleeka: Approaching Inescapable Racializations and Difficult Memories / Farah Virani-Murji

CHAPTER 3 Connection Across Space, Time, and Pandemics: A Conversation with Timothy Stanley / Samantha Cutrara

CHAPTER 4 Amnesia and Racial Tension: Lessons in the Wake of Racial Reckoning / Joseph Smith

CHAPTER 5 Something to Think About: Antiracisms and Learning to Kill Canadian History / Mark T. S. Currie

PART II: DOING HISTORY DIFFERENTLY

CHAPTER 6 Challenging the Old Guard and Disrupting the Grand Narrative / Shannon Conway

CHAPTER 7 The Canadian History Hall Revisited / Lindsay Gibson

CHAPTER 8 The Study of Afghan Textbooks for Citizenship Analysis Through the Work of Timothy Stanley / Noorin Nazari

CHAPTER 9 Letters, Points, and Trajectories in the Work of Timothy Stanley / Kent den Heyer

PART III: MENTORSHIP

CHAPTER 10 The Accidental (Not Occidental) Anti-Essentialist Antiracist Educator / Doug Tateishi

CHAPTER 11 Not Just Another Bobby Orr: Reflections on Academic Genealogy and the Scholarship of Timothy J. Stanley / Ken Montgomery

CHAPTER 12 To Affect Eternity by Acting Through Others: Timothy J. Stanleys Graduate Student Mentorship / Pamela Rogers

CHAPTER 13 And So? : Lessons from Timothy Stanley in Engaging Racisms in the World / Nichole Grant

EPILOGUE Building Connections: My Humble Reply / Timothy J. Stanley

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7766-4617-6

OCLC:

1566320462

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access