Contributing to the literature on the Muslim experience post-9/11, the purpose of this study was to engage with a group that is often talked about, but not with: Muslim youth. Using an integrative anti-racist and anti-colonial approach with an emphasis on a spiritual way of knowing, this study gives voice to young Muslim activists in Toronto who have made the choice to “do something”. The study aims to understand what motivates these young activists, particularly in the context of post-9/11 Islamophobia, with the goal being to challenge stereotypical perceptions of Muslims, while contributing to the body of knowledge that aims to disrupt dominant notions of what “Canadian” identity is. The following analysis helps answer this question, which includes the role of spirituality, the attachment to Canadian identity and the desire to educate. Key challenges and what these youth prescribe for Canada’s future are also discussed.

Contributing to the literature on the Muslim experience post-9/11, the purpose of this study was to engage with a group that is often talked about, but not with: Muslim youth. Using an integrative anti-racist and anti-colonial approach with an emphasis on a spiritual way of knowing, this study gives voice to young Muslim activists in Toronto who have made the choice to “do something”. The study aims to understand what motivates these young activists, particularly in the context of post-9/11 Islamophobia, with the goal being to challenge stereotypical perceptions of Muslims, while contributing to the body of knowledge that aims to disrupt dominant notions of what “Canadian” identity is. The following analysis helps answer this question, which includes the role of spirituality, the attachment to Canadian identity and the desire to educate. Key challenges and what these youth prescribe for Canada’s future are also discussed.

Contributing to the literature on the Muslim experience post-9/11, the purpose of this study was to engage with a group that is often talked about, but not with: Muslim youth. Using an integrative anti-racist and anti-colonial approach with an emphasis on a spiritual way of knowing, this study gives voice to young Muslim activists in Toronto who have made the choice to “do something”. The study aims to understand what motivates these young activists, particularly in the context of post-9/11 Islamophobia, with the goal being to challenge stereotypical perceptions of Muslims, while contributing to the body of knowledge that aims to disrupt dominant notions of what “Canadian” identity is. The following analysis helps answer this question, which includes the role of spirituality, the attachment to Canadian identity and the desire to educate. Key challenges and what these youth prescribe for Canada’s future are also discussed.

Despite exposure of educational disparities for students of color, as well as the notion that educational training rarely discusses race and racism, there continues to be a lack of discourse on race, racism, and anti-racism in educational leadership. Subsequently, it is important to challenge deficit thinking and encourage further examination of the deeply-rooted foundation of oppression. The study explored personal narratives of white educational leaders who oppose racial inequity to heighten awareness about conceptualizations of race, racism, and anti-racism. The research involved interviewing educational leaders in three groups: 1) aspiring, 2) currently-practicing, and 3) recently-retired. Eight participants were selected to engage in two semi-structured interviews about their experiences aligned with the following research questions: 1) How do white educational leaders frame the impact of race and racism? and 2) How do white educational leaders describe their perceptions and experiences recognizing, confronting, and dialoguing with others about race and racism? The findings revealed commonalties about the subtle nature of racism, as well as how to confront racism through thoughts and actions. While participants considered dialogue beneficial in their own awareness of race and racism, the lack of venues to dialogue were emphasized. The findings suggest implications for further contextualizing negotiations of race-related tensions and framing the impact of race and racism, particularly in relation to creating purposeful spaces and relationships to encourage such dialogue. Additionally, interpretation of the findings adds insight to further conceptualizing racial identity models and anti-racism.

This project engages theories of settler colonialism, biopower, and the state of exception to analyze the operations of rights-based narratives of citizenship in relation to political dissent in Canada. I argue that a normalized state of exception founds the white supremacist, settler colonial state, bringing Canadian citizenship into being as a (white) racialized, (cis)gendered, and (hetero)sexualized construct. By examining “resistance narratives” about the Toronto G20 that emerged in the post-G20 climate, my work argues that, in treating the policing practices employed during the G20 as exceptional and in (re)producing the exaltation of white heterosexual cis-masculine citizens, these narratives normalize and reinforce the daily operations of the exception, which targets Indigenous, racialized, and other “Others” in Canada. Finally, my work critically engages with the space of the Eastern Detention Centre (EDC) as a temporary camp set up to detain G20 arrestees, and with the narrative of “Torontonamo” that emerged to describe and explain the EDC. Reading the EDC in the context of other spatial organizations of the exception in Canada, I argue that the “Torontonamo” narrative reasserts race thinking in relation to the normalized operations of the exception. In so doing, it (re)produces white citizen-subjects as the proper recipients of national and international human rights, while abandoning racialized populations to the space of the camp. Ultimately, my work writes against the hegemonic view of the Toronto G20 as an exceptional event in Canadian history. I contend that G20 policing practices were only a hyper-visible example of the normalized operations of the exception within settler colonialism. / Thesis (Master, Gender Studies) -- Queen's University, 2012-09-29 21:16:51.694

In recent years, there has been a significant amount of new attention to white dominance and privilege (or whiteness) as the often unmarked inverse of racial oppression. This interest has spawned the academic domain called Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS). While the critical investigation of whiteness is not new, and has been pioneered by Black scholars beginning at least since the early 1900s in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, what is notable about this new interest in whiteness is its advancement almost exclusively by white scholars. The paucity of literature centering the Black voice in the study of whiteness both suggests the lack of appreciation for the importance of this perspective when researching the phenomenon of racial dominance, and raises questions about the manner in which racial equity work is approached by some Whites who do work that is intended to advance racial equity. This study investigates the context of racial equity collaborations between Blacks and Whites, responding to this knowledge deficit in two ways: a) it centers the Black voice, specifically and intentionally seeking the perspectives of Blacks about racial equity collaborations b) it investigates the nature and effects of the relationships between Blacks and Whites in these collaborative endeavours. This qualitative research study uses in-depth interview data collected from ten Black racial equity workers who collaborate with Whites in doing racial equity work. The data makes evident that the Black participants find these collaborations to be necessary and strategic while at the same time having the potential to undermine their own agency. The study examines this contradiction, discussing several manifestations of it in the lives of these Black racial equity workers. It outlines the importance of Black embodied knowledge to racial equity work and to these collaborations, and outlines an epistemology of unknowing and a politics of humility that these Blacks seek in their white colleagues. The study also outlines the collective and individual strategies used by these Black racial equity workers to navigate and resist the contradictory terrain of their collaborations with Whites in racial equity work.

A presente dissertação versa sobre as relações entre as dimensões política e cultural na cultura política do movimento negro em Porto Alegre, bem como a contínua mobilização e estratégias travadas pelas entidades do movimento social negro através das suas diferentes formas organizativas. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar como são construídas as políticas culturais do movimento negro em Porto Alegre e examinar as estratégias de ação no interior das organizações. O estudo buscou construir uma análise sob uma ótica pós-colonial que contribua para as reflexões sobre as relações entre política e cultura verificando como os movimentos sociais tem ampliado a essa discussão a partir de suas ações. Para isso se construiu uma análise teórico-metodológica interdisciplinar, apoiada em literaturas que analisam a mobilização produzida pelos movimentos sociais latino-americanos. A coleta de dados combinou observação participante, entrevistas e análises de documentos produzidos pelas organizações investigadas a fim de reconstruir as bases em que se apoiam sua cultura política. Sendo assim, buscou-se descrever de forma analítica como a cultura negra e suas diferentes articulações tem contribuído para a luta antirracista promovida pelo movimento negro no Brasil. / This thesis examines the relationships between the cultural and political dimensions of the black movement political culture in Porto Alegre, as well as the continuous mobilization and strategies performed by black social movement organizations through its various organizational forms. The aim of this study is to analyze how black movement cultural policies are built and to investigate the strategies adopted internally by those organizations. The study has developed an analysis through a postcolonial perspective, contributing to the discussion on the relationship between politics and culture by observing how social movements have expanded such discussion through their actions. For that, a theoretical and methodological analysis supported by interdisciplinary literature shed attention to the movements produced by social movements in Latin-America. Data collection combined participant observation, interviews and analysis of documents produced by the organizations observed in the study to reconstruct the foundations supporting their cultural policies. So, an analytical description of how black culture and its diverse interfaces has contributed to the anti-racist figtht, as fought by black movement in Brazil, is presented.

A presente dissertação versa sobre as relações entre as dimensões política e cultural na cultura política do movimento negro em Porto Alegre, bem como a contínua mobilização e estratégias travadas pelas entidades do movimento social negro através das suas diferentes formas organizativas. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar como são construídas as políticas culturais do movimento negro em Porto Alegre e examinar as estratégias de ação no interior das organizações. O estudo buscou construir uma análise sob uma ótica pós-colonial que contribua para as reflexões sobre as relações entre política e cultura verificando como os movimentos sociais tem ampliado a essa discussão a partir de suas ações. Para isso se construiu uma análise teórico-metodológica interdisciplinar, apoiada em literaturas que analisam a mobilização produzida pelos movimentos sociais latino-americanos. A coleta de dados combinou observação participante, entrevistas e análises de documentos produzidos pelas organizações investigadas a fim de reconstruir as bases em que se apoiam sua cultura política. Sendo assim, buscou-se descrever de forma analítica como a cultura negra e suas diferentes articulações tem contribuído para a luta antirracista promovida pelo movimento negro no Brasil. / This thesis examines the relationships between the cultural and political dimensions of the black movement political culture in Porto Alegre, as well as the continuous mobilization and strategies performed by black social movement organizations through its various organizational forms. The aim of this study is to analyze how black movement cultural policies are built and to investigate the strategies adopted internally by those organizations. The study has developed an analysis through a postcolonial perspective, contributing to the discussion on the relationship between politics and culture by observing how social movements have expanded such discussion through their actions. For that, a theoretical and methodological analysis supported by interdisciplinary literature shed attention to the movements produced by social movements in Latin-America. Data collection combined participant observation, interviews and analysis of documents produced by the organizations observed in the study to reconstruct the foundations supporting their cultural policies. So, an analytical description of how black culture and its diverse interfaces has contributed to the anti-racist figtht, as fought by black movement in Brazil, is presented.

A presente dissertação versa sobre as relações entre as dimensões política e cultural na cultura política do movimento negro em Porto Alegre, bem como a contínua mobilização e estratégias travadas pelas entidades do movimento social negro através das suas diferentes formas organizativas. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar como são construídas as políticas culturais do movimento negro em Porto Alegre e examinar as estratégias de ação no interior das organizações. O estudo buscou construir uma análise sob uma ótica pós-colonial que contribua para as reflexões sobre as relações entre política e cultura verificando como os movimentos sociais tem ampliado a essa discussão a partir de suas ações. Para isso se construiu uma análise teórico-metodológica interdisciplinar, apoiada em literaturas que analisam a mobilização produzida pelos movimentos sociais latino-americanos. A coleta de dados combinou observação participante, entrevistas e análises de documentos produzidos pelas organizações investigadas a fim de reconstruir as bases em que se apoiam sua cultura política. Sendo assim, buscou-se descrever de forma analítica como a cultura negra e suas diferentes articulações tem contribuído para a luta antirracista promovida pelo movimento negro no Brasil. / This thesis examines the relationships between the cultural and political dimensions of the black movement political culture in Porto Alegre, as well as the continuous mobilization and strategies performed by black social movement organizations through its various organizational forms. The aim of this study is to analyze how black movement cultural policies are built and to investigate the strategies adopted internally by those organizations. The study has developed an analysis through a postcolonial perspective, contributing to the discussion on the relationship between politics and culture by observing how social movements have expanded such discussion through their actions. For that, a theoretical and methodological analysis supported by interdisciplinary literature shed attention to the movements produced by social movements in Latin-America. Data collection combined participant observation, interviews and analysis of documents produced by the organizations observed in the study to reconstruct the foundations supporting their cultural policies. So, an analytical description of how black culture and its diverse interfaces has contributed to the anti-racist figtht, as fought by black movement in Brazil, is presented.

Orientador: Gilda Figueireo Portugal Gouveia / Dissertação (mestrado)- Universidade Estdual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanos / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T03:25:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_MarcioHenriqueCasimiroLopesSilva_M.pdf: 1113851 bytes, checksum: 099ec1ef639c606fa3b82bc0a4558779 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A partir das dificuldades observadas entre os agentes jurídicos quanto a prerrogativa legal que possuem de qualificar as ocorrências policiais de práticas racistas em crime de racismo ou de injúria qualificada, buscou-se compreender os usos e sentidos atribuídos à legislação antirracismo, assim como as próprias concepções dos agentes sobre o tema. Entre aqueles agentes, os delegados de polícia da cidade de Campinas foram escolhidos para entrevistas pessoais nos distritos onde atuavam. Com as entrevistas, procurou-se trilhar os caminhos do tratamento jurídico destinado às discriminações racistas, tornando possível observar como operam alguns padrões de valor cultural ante àquela prerrogativa. Pôde-se observar como esta prática não se restringia àquela prerrogativa e nem à esfera das relações jurídicas, mas fazia parte de um contexto institucional maior, revelando-se como uma das faces de um racismo institucionalizado e que possuía implicações significativas sobre o exercício efetivo da cidadania plena. Tomou forma, assim, uma situação de subordinação social na qual o quadro normativo da sociedade não oferecia o suporte necessário à participação paritária na vida social, constituindo-se as práticas jurídicas como um importante mecanismo de reprodução das desigualdades sociais / Abstract: From the difficulties between the legal staff on legal prerogative to qualify the police occurrence of racist practices in crime of racism or qualified injury, sought to understand the uses and meanings attributed to the anti-racism law and the own conceptions of the officers on the subject. Among those officials, delegates of police of the city of Campinas were selected for personal interviews in the districts where they work. In the interviews, we tried to walk the ways of the legal treatment aimed at racial discrimination, making it possible to observe how some patterns of cultural value operates against that prerogative. It was noted how this practice is not restricted to that prerogative or to the sphere of legal relations, but was part of a larger institutional context, revealing itself as one of the faces of an institutionalized racism and that had significant implications on the effective exercise of full citizenship. Thus, took shape a situation of social subordination in which the normative framework of society did not offer the support necessary to participate as peers in social life, becoming legal practices as an important mechanism of reproduction of social inequalities / Mestrado / Pensamento Social / Mestre em Sociologia