In this moment of global upheaval, and even as we acknowledge how much the political climate has been changed by anti-colonial and anti-racist movements, what would those who are bearing the brunt of our age’s most brutalizing forms of dispossession, disenfranchisement, wars, violence and ongoing genocides have to say of what we do in these institutions today?
The Royal Society of Canada has historically been the national emblem of that impervious white wall of denial and racism. Yet, it has changed it has brought in critical minds and challenging voices. Tanzanian-Canadian feminist sociologist, academic, and activist Dr. Sunera Thobani takes her place there now, recognized as one of the finest scholarly minds in the country.