Tangling with Whiteness and Multicultural (Neo)liberalism: Canada's Timely Lessons on Denial and Praxis for Global Educators

摘要

Both from within and outside many view Canada as a beacon of tolerance and moral superiority, particularly in contrast to its southern neighbor. Yet, as Darren Lund and Paul Carr's recent volume Revisiting the Great White North? Refraining Whiteness, Privilege, and Identity in Education (2015) shows, this narrative actually maintains the power of Whiteness as a thought system and sociopolitical structure. By analyzing how Canadians promote and protect a liberal and nonracist self-image, this book helps us decipher sometimes hidden forms and denial of racism, particularly in teaching and education contexts. More broadly, this analysis helps explain the resurgence of White supremacy occurring today in Canada, the United States, Western Europe, and beyond. The recent anniversary of six men killed as they prayed at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec on January 29, 2017 (Gutnick, 2017), offers a chilling reminder of the deep need to account for increasing racial violence in global contexts often described as "liberal" and "multicultural."