CIARS in Conversation: Africentric Approaches to Teaching history [1:35:58]
Centre for Integrated Anti-Racist Studies (CIARS) at OISE hosted a discussion on Afrocentric approaches to teaching History. Moderated by Phiona Lloyd-Henry, Co-ordinating Principal for System Transformation & Capacity Building -- with a focus on disrupting Anti-Black racism -- with the Peel District School Board.
Being Human as a Relationship [8:26]
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, educator, and musician born in Jamaica. Currently, he is a Professor and Department Head in the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut, Lewis explores the human being's relationship to reality.Speakers for the Dead [49:00]
This National Film Board (NFB) documentary explores and challenges the narrative of who were the first non-Indigenous settlers in Grey County, Ontario. The backdrop for this story concerns a farmer in Priceville during the 1930s who buried the tombstones of a Black cemetery in order to begin a potato patch. The documentary explores the tensions, perspectives, and silences of Canadian history in the context of Anti-Black racism and the nation’s colonial history.
Everyday Activism, Critical Resistance [1:14:39]
The Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at York University hosted a 2018 panel discussion with poet and author, Dionne Brand; Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms at UTSC, Robyn Maynard; and Executive Director of Sistering, Angela Robertson to discuss the role of activism as a way to resist forms of gender, class, and race-based oppression in Canada.
Subjects of Desire: Redefining Black Female Beauty [59:35]
Subjects of Desire is an award-winning documentary written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Holness. Hosted by Nam Kiwanuka of TVO's The Agenda, she discusses the context of the documentary with Jennifer Holness and University of Washington professor Dr. Carolyn West. The film, available to stream -- https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/subjects-of-desire -- examines the intersection of Blackness and Womanhood by critically looking at the narratives and the messages that Black women, Black girls, and the world often receive about what is and is not beautiful.