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Multiculturalism, Colonialism, and Racialization: Conceptual Starting Points

A central aim of the Anti-Colonial Project (ACP) is to change the landscape of public discourse about race and colonialism in Canada in ways that increase possibilities for anti-colonialism and racial justice. Individuals and institutions across Canada variously constitute, contest, and remake the meanings of racism and colonialism (Mackey 2002; Thobani 2007; Alfred 2009). There are multiple ways to interpret, respond to, and resist these meanings and their significance (Chrisjohn and Young 1997; Jiwani and Young 2006; Walcott 2003; Couldhardt 2010). The approximately 20 members of the project, a cross-racial group of individuals from across Canada, believe that historical and ongoing colonialism are profoundly relevant to life in Canada, and that colonialism and racism exist at individual and institutional levels. The project assumes that race matters in Canada; and that Canada is a white settler colony built on the expropriation of Indigenous land, erasure of Indigenous histories, and ongoing colonization. In a weekend-long workshop and two day-long meetings, as well as in additional conversations linked to developing ideas about race and colonization and specific topics such as education, violence, law, and child welfare, project members have grappled with our own ways of seeing the issues noted above. We agree that the ACP is a multi-platform and transmedia exploration of the history and ongoing operation of colonization in Canada. At the same time, we wrestle with questions that simultaneously call for conceptual clarity The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 33:285–305, 2011 Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1071-4413 print=1556-3022 online DOI: 10.1080/10714413.2011.597637