Transcender la diversité :

recourir à la théorie critique de la race et à la pensée féministe noire pour favoriser l’intégration des Noirs dans les admissions universitaires de premier cycle

Auteurs-es

  • Christopher Stuart Taylor University of Waterloo
  • Grace A. Gomashie University of Waterloo

Mots-clés :

admissions, racisme envers les Noirs, groupes d’affinité noirs, équité et inclusion, justice réparatrice, changement aux systèmes

Résumé

Cet article soutient que des mesures concrètes sont nécessaires pour lutter contre le racisme envers les Noirs et favoriser l’intégration des Noirs dans l’enseignement supérieur canadien. Ces mesures pertinentes devraient cibler les obstacles systémiques auxquels font face les étudiants noirs lorsqu’ils accèdent aux établissements d’enseignement postsecondaire. Par nos réflexions sur les pratiques actuelles d’admission dans les universités ontariennes de recherche intensive, cet article souligne comment les cadres de diversité et d’inclusion actuellement utilisés peuvent s’avérer inefficaces pour briser le mythe de la méritocratie et atténuer les obstacles systémiques auxquels font face les candidats noirs de premier cycle. Nous recommandons que les pratiques d’admission au premier cycle soient fondées sur une compréhension critique des quatre principes de la Charte de Scarborough (l’épanouissement des Noirs, l’excellence inclusive, la mutualité et la responsabilisation) afin de favoriser les admissions des Noirs, et que la théorie critique de la race et la pensée féministe noire servent de cadres pour créer des pratiques et des programmes d’admission qui perturbent le racisme envers les Noirs. Cet article suscitera d’autres discussions sur ce que représente le fait de favoriser l’intégration des Noirs de manière transformatrice dans l’admission et l’inscription dans les universités.

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Christopher Stuart Taylor, University of Waterloo

Christopher Stuart Taylor is the Associate Vice-President of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Anti-Racism (EDI-R) at the University of Waterloo. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. He completed his PhD at Western University (Canada) in History and Migration & Ethnic Relations (MER). His book, Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians, is available from Fernwood Publishing. He also worked in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) and began his career as a Policy Coordinator Intern in the Deputy Minister's Office at the Ministry of Labour. He was the Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator in the Ministry of the Attorney General's Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility Office; a Senior Policy Advisor at Ontario's Anti-Racism Directorate; and Manager of Social Justice & Change Cluster at the Ontario Correctional Services College. Dr. Taylor is a proud founding member of the University of Waterloo’s Black Faculty Collective (BFC). Twitter/X: @DrCSTaylor

Grace A. Gomashie, University of Waterloo

Grace A. Gomashie, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture, Mount Allison University, Canada, where she researches topics on equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, where her doctoral research focused on language vitality in Indigenous communities. She has published in the areas of onomastics, Indigenous language maintenance, Spanish varieties, community studies, and translation studies.

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2024-08-26

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