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The experiences of racial minority teacher candidates are often unheard in teacher education programs considering that the student population is increasingly diversifying and the teaching population does not reflect this dynamic. In a country that is internationally known for its multicultural practices, it is important to examine the experiences of racial minority teacher candidates in order to gain a better understanding of the ways in which issues of race and power persist in our education system. This qualitative study documents the experiences of a small group of racial minority teacher candidates who recently completed post baccalaureate teacher education programs at universities in Ontario, Canada. With a particular focus on their practicum placements, the five participants were interviewed in order to bring to light their experiences of working and living in an education system that sustains, what has been called by critics, “a culture of whiteness.” Over the course of the interviews, the five racial minority teacher candidates reveal that the often covert and overt forms of racism are systemic to the education system. It became obvious that in many cases, the participants did not consciously recognize the racism they encountered while working, living, and learning within the education system. Considering a culture of whiteness that is endemic in schools, power relations were further jeopardized and imbalanced by their race. Despite this, the participants also exhibited forms of resistance to the Eurocentric culture that is so deeply entrenched in the education system. Through an investigation of these themes, this thesis offers implications for future racial minority teacher candidates and anti-racist educators. / Thesis (Master, Education) -- Queen's University, 2008-08-29 13:21:55.632

La communauté Lesbienne, Gay, Bisexuelle et Transsexuelle (LGBT) a su devenir incontournable aux États-Unis en très peu de temps. Sur la scène politique, de nombreuses victoires ont transformé la perception des minorités sexuelles qui sont de plus en plus acceptées, ont obtenu le mariage et font partie de la société américaine. Nous nous interrogeons sur les raisons qui ont permis cette évolution si rapide. Nous considérons que c'est le système économique capitaliste qui a favorisé ces changements. La création d'un marché spécifique puis son ouverture au marché mainstream ont transformé le regard porté sur une communauté autrefois ostracisée ou invisible. Nous observons dans ce travail de recherche les bénéfices et les inconvénients d'un activisme par la consommation et les réactions des différents mouvements LGBT et queer qui ont vu le jour au XXe siècle / The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community has rapidely become part of american Society. It has won many battles-among them the right to get married-which have changed the way sexual minorities are now seen. Gay culture is everywhere in magazines, in Hollywood, on TV, and we can wonder what were the reasons for such an evolution. We consider that the way the community has understood capitalism enabled those changes. From the creation of a market and its recognition by the mainstream, LGBT people are now consumer activists. We analyse in this PhD dissertation the benefits and setbacks of that activism with regards to the different waves of LGBTQ movements in the twentieh century

Whitewashing and colourism is prevalent in the Hollywood film industry due to decades of institutional racism, unconscious and implicit bias of professionals in the industry combined with the misconceptions of the success factors in film. This study will explore the capabilities of artificial intelligence helping the industry professionals of Hollywood film fight against whitewashing. The research of AI and AI-human interactions are a relatively young phenomenon, let alone combining artificial intelligence with the creative process of creating a cast. This means that the whole research is a relatively new territory and will be examined from an exploratory point of view. The findings of this paper suggest that AI certainly has the capabilities to help Hollywood make more diverse casts with more equal representation of people of colour, but technology needs to face and overcome the biases of its own first. / Whitewashing och colourism är utbredda fenomen i filmbranschen i Hollywood. Detta är en konsekvens av årtionden av institutionell rasism, omedvetna och indirekta fördomar hos branschfolk, i kombination med missuppfattningar om framgångsfaktorerna i filmer. Denna studie kommer att undersöka möjligheten att använda artificiell intelligens som ett hjälpmedel för professionella inom filmindustrin i Hollywood i kampen mot whitewashing. Forskningen av AI (artificiell intelligens) och AI-mänskliga interaktioner är ett relativt nytt fenomen, likaså att kombinera artificiell intelligens med den kreativa processen av att skapa en gjutning. Detta innebär att forskningen kring ämnet är ett relativt nytt område och kommer att undersökas ur en utforskande synvinkel. Resultatet av denna avhandling tyder på att användningen av AI som ett hjälpmedel kan resultera i mer varierande rollbesättningar, med bredare representation av färgade personer, men tekniken måste till att börja med möta och övervinna sina egna fördomar.

The work deals with concepts related to education for tolerance and multiculturalism, defining its main ideas and goals. They are given the contemporary concept of education for tolerance. Specifically, it is our Republic, the European Union (Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, France) and powers outside the European Union such as the U.S. and Russia.