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Racialized Discourses
Harjeet Kaur Badwall
Feb 02, 2016
This paper is concerned with the ethics of knowledge production when conducting research on racial injustice. The discussion draws upon my doctoral research, in which I interviewed 23 racialized social workers in Toronto...
An Introduction to Anti-Black Sanism
Sanism is an oppression. It makes normal the practice of discrimination, rejection, silencing, exclusion, low expectations, incarceration, and other forms of violence against people who are othered through mental ‘illness’...
Concrete Ceilings
This research consisted of qualitative interviews with 21 Black women who currently held, had held, or were qualified for managerial-level positions in the public service sector. The research questions were as follows: (1) What...
American Police Officers
Over the last several years, the killing of Blacks by white police officers in America has drawn a great deal of attention from many sectors in society. A number of cases involving police murder of Blacks have been captured on...
"Rape me, I’m Irish"
Jemma Tosh
Dec 31, 2015
Well documented experiences of the Irish diaspora in England include humiliation, discrimination, and higher rates of suicide and psychiatric intervention (Hickman, 2000). However, the construction of the Irish in relation to...
Colonial Encounters
Harjeet Kaur Badwall
Jan 07, 2015
This article examines the ways in which racialized social workers negotiate the values and practices of a social work profession that is constituted through scripts of whiteness. In particular, I examine how social work imagines...