Anti-Racism in Education: Missing In Action

Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2010


Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action


by Charles C. Smith



Issue(s): Aboriginal issues , Children and youth, Education, Human rights
Projects & Initiatives: Education Project
June 1, 2010



“Anti-Racism in Education: Missing In Action, a book I am glad to be part of, addresses needs across the educational spectrum, from primary school up to and including university, and addresses quite directly the link to our workplaces and to ongoing issues of societal and institutional racism.

It also looks at the relationship between education and other systems in which racialized and Aboriginal peoples face on-going challenges, e.g., children’s aid societies and law enforcement.

With sections looking at the history of anti-racism in schools and society, with particular focus on Aboriginal/Indigenous issues and Afrocentric pedagogies, and providing through- out an examination of intersectional issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and disabilities, this book brilliantly navigates the waters we need to cross in order to engage our students and enable them to be engaged in our communities and workplaces as knowledgeable and active agents for change.”

— George J. Sefa Dei Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies at the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT)



Investigating the economic side of racism, the CCPA has produced a report on The Role of Race and Gender in Ontario's Racialized Income Gap.

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