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A Colonial Legacy of Cultural and Epistemic Genocide: Limited Education Access, Family Dislocation and Premature Death of Indigenous Youth in Northern Ontario, Canada
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Marjorie Johnstone; Eunjung Lee – Whiteness and Education, 2024
Using a philosophical framework of epistemic injustice and epistemic resistance (Fricker, 2007; Medina, 2013), we examine the recent deaths of nine Indigenous youths in a Northern Ontario city, Thunder Bay. We first document various reports and then we interrogate the impact of this violence on Indigenous communities, considering the egregious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Death, Colonialism
Kigali and Phoenix: Historical Similarities between Pre-Genocide Rwanda and Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Wave
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Dwyer, Eric – Critical Questions in Education, 2018
Historical events in Arizona, including very recent ones, are eerily similar to those of Rwanda. In this article, stories of Arizona's political history are relayed while recalling those leading to Rwanda's genocide. The stories include references to key roles education policy has played in the oppression of students labeled Tutsi and students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Death, Cognitive Mapping
The Center on Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh
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Davis, Larry E.; Bangs, Ralph L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
In 2002, the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh established the Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP). CRSP, which is the first race research center to be housed in a school of social work, has six foci: economic disparities; educational disparities; interracial group relations; mental health; youth, families, and elderly;…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Mentors, Substance Abuse, Adolescents