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Map of White Segregation/Enclaves in Toronto
Statistics Canada has a “thematic” map of the percentage of visible minorities in Toronto CMA (Census Metropolitan Area) in 2006. You can click on the map below to see a larger version. Generally, the...
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White Canadians with KKK uniform, noose, and blackface win Halloween costume...
KKK costume shocks Ont. town (2010): The Royal Canadian Legion ordered its Campbellford, Ont., chapter to close while police are investigating a complaint that a person in Ku Klux Klan robes led a man...
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Together, womyn of colour struggle with shadeism.
This well-done, Canadian documentary (20 minutes) on shadeism and light-skin privilege features the stories of young womyn of colour from Toronto: Nayani Thiyagarajah narrates: Four women, four...
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Five masked men assault white anti-racist activists in their home. (Calgary,...
Calgary anti-racism activists’ home invaded (CBC News): The victims of a home invasion in Calgary early Monday morning are well-known anti-racism activists. Calgary police said five masked men armed...
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Tim Wise is my white blog-friend.
In Reading Comprehension 101: Text, Subtext and the Politics of Misinterpretation, Tim Wise writes (emphasis mine): In other words, putting aside the inherent absurdity of this interpretation — I am...
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City of Edmonton pulls “white privilege” message from its anti-racism website
The controversial Edmonton anti-racism campaign that called on whites to “acknowledge your white privilege” has now removed the prominent references to “white privilege”. Paula Simons reports: Lewis...
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White people dislike Asian people attending Canadian universities.
Maclean’s thinks that top Canadian universities are “too Asian”. I didn’t even know how to begin to address the many ways the article fails, but wildunicornherd sums it up pretty well: The best...
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Canadian White Person: “He might be a Canadian citizen but he’ll never be a...
Via Asians Not Studying, a tumblr blog created in response to the racist Maclean’s article, “Too Asian”.
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31 years later, White Canadians are still racist and learned nothing from 1979.
In Maclean’s Magazine revisits old fears with ‘Too Asian?’ article at Racialicious, Arturo R. García blogs: As one reader noted via e-mail, these fears are nothing new: In 1979, the CTV network aired a...
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Canada’s Maclean’s has a whiteness problem.
“‘Too Asian’?” was not the first racist Maclean’s article lamenting the quantity of racialized people displacing white people and white power. In 2006, Maclean’s published “The future belongs to Islam”...
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Maclean’s “‘Too Asian’?” is xenophobic; Margaret Wente’s defence is obfuscation.
In Too Brazen: Maclean’s, Margaret Wente, and the Canadian media’s inarticulacy about race, Jeet Heer writes: The problems with the Maclean’s article are many and systematic. I’ve already discussed...
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White males blame Asians and women for attending universities intended for...
In When Asians enroll! (And other tales from meritocracy’s margins) Sarah Ghabrial writes: Meritocracy forgets privilege, and the fact that folks from marginalized groups have to work a hell of a lot...
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White women are stereotyped differently from Black and Asian women.
Abagond describes the Three Bears Effect: The Three Bears Effect is the name given by Aiyo at the blog Black British Girl for how whites stereotype blacks and Asians as opposites while putting...
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White racism creates more sexism in the world.
In What does cultural competence look like? resistance of Resist racism discusses the problem of “cultural competence” through learning cultural “facts”. A recurrent problem with this is that white...
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Canadian Black History Month teaches us that Canada is “not racist”.
In Why I am Skipping Black History Month Renee of Womanist Musings writes: When I was a child, Black history month consisted of the traditional lecture on Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad,...
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Discrimination against job applicants with non-white names continues.
Muslim ‘refused job because of his name’ accuses airline bosses of racism: A Muslim airport worker has accused airline Cathay Pacific of racism after he was refused a job interview – only to be offered...
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Othering and Projection: Chinese is confusing vs. Chinese are confused
In English, a person says, “It’s all Greek to me,” when they do not understand the words of someone else. In Greek, when a person does not understand, they say it sounds like Chinese. Many languages...
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White Americans did NOT elect Obama.
This myth won’t die: But not everyone buys that script. Mona Charen, a conservative columnist for the National Review, challenges that view with this question: If more white Americans feel like an...
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Workers, mostly immigrants, organize unions in Silicon Valley.
Striker Maribel Garcia reads a statement from women who went on a hunger strike in a tent encampment on the sidewalk in front of one of Versatronex' biggest customers, Digital Microwave Corporation. In...
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White Canadians earn more, because they have white privilege.
White Canadians earn more than non-white Canadians, even when comparing only the whites and non-whites with the same education and of the same age. Comparing only the foreign-born white Canadians with...
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