Pioneering leaders
This Canadian civil and women's rights activist of Black Nova Scotian descent challenged segregation laws in a theatre.
Who is Viola Desmond?
Slavery throughout this colonial empire officially ended in 1834, but racial discrimination persisted.
What is the British Empire?
This type of racism lies within individuals who absorb cultural biases and come to accept inequity as normal.
What is internalized racism?
True or False. Racial profiling by law enforcement can lead to increased productivity, greater trust, and an enhanced sense of belonging.
What is false?
Her marriage to tobacco planter John Rolfe was considered an important step towards re-establishing positive relations between the colonists and the Indigenous peoples of the area.
Who is Pocahontas?
Janaya Khan and Sandy Hudson cofounded this organization to resist anti-Black racism in 2014.
What is BLM Toronto?
From 1942 to 1949, Canada forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 22,000 Canadians whose ancestors had immigrated from this country.
What is Japan?
This type of racism is primarily expressed through interactions between individuals. Common examples include bullying or verbal harassment.
What is interpersonal racism?
True or False. Hiring employees based on whether their last names sound racialized or not is an example of systemic discrimination in employment.
What is true?
This is a person who stands up for others if they're being treated unkindly or unfairly.
What is an ally?
At the age of five, Jay Soule, an Indigenous artist, was separated from his biological mother and grew up outside his original community. He is considered part of the so-called Sixties _____.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
Africville, a close‐knit Black community located in this Canadian province, was demolished in the 1960s, and its residents have been fighting for justice ever since.
What is Nova Scotia?
This type of racism lies embedded within organizations, including the education system, the health care system and the criminal justice system.
What is institutional racism?
True or False. Racialized Canadians earn an average of 70 cents to the dollar compared to other Canadians.
This act required Indigenous people to get permits to sell grain, cattle, produce and to buy groceries and clothes.
What is The Indian Act?
Through throat singing, storytelling, and traditional arts she shares on TikTok, Shina Nova shares the culture of this Indigenous people of northern Canada, whose traditional territory is above the Arctic Circle.
Who are the Inuit?
This discriminatory tax levied to restrict Chinese immigration after the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway is named after a body part.
What is the Chinese head tax?
This concept recognizes that different kinds of discrimination can reinforce and influence each other. Identities such as a person’s race, class, gender, or sexual orientation, interact in how they might face discrimination.
What is Intersectionality?
As opposed to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the East African slave trade involved the capture and transportation of predominately Black African slaves along the Horn of Africa, and through the waters of this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
By the 1790s, approximately how many slaves lived in the Maritimes?
What is about 2,000?
He authored a powerful book on a year of Black resistance called The Skin We're In (2020), and it won the Toronto Book Award.
Who is Desmond Cole?
In 1834, Black property-owning men were technically allowed to vote, but discrimination at these stations prevented many from voting.
What are voting stations?
Systemic racism can cause the underrepresentation of racialized groups in higher education. For example, more than 70% of students from this racialised group in Toronto don't apply to post-secondary institutions.
Who are Indigenous students?
True or False. Race is a social construct related to physical appearance, while ethnicity pertains to cultural traditions.
What is true?
These types of comments or questions can be hurtful or stigmatizing to certain marginalized groups of people. For example, saying, “You’re so smart for a woman” would be an example.
What is a microaggression?