race and racism – Page 3

Strategies for Dismantling Racial Fragility In Public Institutions

I organized and moderated this public panel following a public policy roundtable session as part of my work with the MacEachen Institute. The insights from Professor Cristina Rojas, Professor Alex Khasnabish, Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed, and Dr. Rachel Zellers helped to catalyze and fuel much work on the question in the years following this roundtable.

Engaging Capitalism and Slavery as Decolonial Text

Ajay Parasram, 2019. “Engaging Capitalism and Slavery as Decolonial Text” in Reading the Post War Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944 edited by John Munro and Kirrily Freeman. London: Bloomsbury, 113 – 128.

Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation

Ajay Parasram, 2019. “Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation” Studies in Political Economy 100/2: 194 – 207. We are at a critical moment when we must confront the relationship between racial stress and white supremacy in order to provide tools and education to combat the radicalization of young white men in Canada. White fragility insulates structuralContinue reading “Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation”