♥ Indicates a resource that has been used to stimulate discussions during a meeting of the LLED Antiracist Caucus.
Accessible Resources
♥ Syllabus Review: Guiding Questions. By University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work Anti-Racist Doctoral Program Student Committee (2020).
The LLED Antiracist Caucus’s Antiracist Self-Reflection Toolbox for course developers and instructors was very much informed by this inspiring work from this UPenn graduate student group. Their recommendations are framed within the field of social work, but we’re sure you’ll find them thought-provoking whatever your field.
♥ Excerpt from “Academic Indian Job Description: Have to Know. By Cash Ahenakew (2016)
“Ahenakew’s poem demonstrates the inequitable layers of labour placed upon Indigenous job applicants as they are expected to be the ‘best’ candidate according to the job description and also the ‘perfect’ Indigenous scholar regardless of their own specific experiences with inter-generational injustice and impacts of colonialism. These multifaceted and often impossible criteria expect ‘academic excellence’ in Euro-centric epistemologies, and convincingly articulating them to non-Indigenous colleagues, while also being an ‘expert’ in Indigenous ways of knowing and being to educate others.” Derek Gladwin
♥ Guess who’s coming to dinner? That is, after you hire us. By Annette Henry (2020, October 28)
In this guest post, Dr. Henry discusses the structural change needed in order to hire and support Black faculty at Canadian universities. The LLED Antiracism Caucus read this 9-minute piece to prime us for our discussions on how the department might better signal its commitment to antiracism in job advertisements—and attract more applicants of color.
Epistemological racism and language studies: Decolonizing knowledge. By Ryuko Kubota (2020, May 30)
In this invited talk for the Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN), Dr. Kubota introduces the concept of epistemological racism, which marginalizes the knowledge produced by scholars in the global south, women scholars of color, and other minoritized groups, while compelling these scholars to become complicit with the white male Eurocentric hegemony of knowledge.
Other Resources
♥ Anti-racist pedagogy: From faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom. By Kyoko Kishimoto (2018). [UBC link]
This article was very well-received by caucus members. We used it to generate prompts for the LLED Antiracist Caucus’s Self-Reflective Antiracist Toolbox. The toolbox can be used by instructors in our department (and beyond!) to identify areas for action.
♥ “We are all for diversity, but…”: How faculty hiring committees reproduce Whiteness and practical suggestions for how they can change. By Özlem Sensoy & Robin DiAngelo (2017).
We used this article from the Harvard Educational Review to kick off a series of caucus meetings focusing on hiring and retention practices in higher education. You can find the discussion questions we used here.
R-words: Refusing research. By Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang (2014). [UBC link]
The equity myth: Racialization and indigeneity at Canadian universities. By Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos & Malinda S. Smith (2017). [UBC link]
Doing culture, doing race: Everyday discourses of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural difference’ in the English as a second language classroom. By Ena Lee (2015). [UBC link]
Under the cloak of professionalism: covert racism in teacher education. By Lilach Marom (2019). [UBC link]
Navigating Orientalism: Asian women faculty in the Canadian academy. By Kimine Mayuzumi (2015). [UBC link]
On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life. By Sara Ahmed (2012). [UBC link]
The linguistics of color blind racism: How to talk nasty about black people without sounding “racist”. By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2002). [UBC link]
Still flies in buttermilk: Black male faculty, Critical Race Theory, and composite counter storytelling. By Rachel Alicia Griffin, LaCharles Ward & Amanda R. Phillips, A. R. (2014). [UBC link]
Confronting epistemological racism, decolonizing scholarly knowledge: Race and gender in applied linguistics. By Ryuko Kubota (2020). [UBC link] Applied Linguistics.
“Strangers” of the academy: Asian women scholars in higher education. By Guofang Li & Gulbahar Huxur Beckett (2011).
Structuring disruption within university-based teacher education programs: Possibilities and challenges of race-based caucuses. By Manka Varghese, Julia R. Daniels & Caryn C. Park (2019). [UBC link]