What’s race got to do with it?

Where does race come into our work as anti-violence workers and support workers? Why should we care about race?

Mainstream media and Canada’s ‘Multiculturalism’ policies tells us that we’re living in a ‘post-racial’ world; A world that is past the so-called race question. An alluring sentiment indeed, but one that is deeply flawed. Spreading the idea of a ‘post-racial world’ works to mask the realities of structural racism that continue to thrive in the fabrics of society.

http://www.gotconsent.ca/1/post/2013/03/whats-race-got-to-do-with-it-an-anti-violence-critique-of-post-racial-thought.html

Anisa Mottahed
sasc@ams.ubc.ca