Racism: Then and Now

Uploaded by AgendaStevePaikin on Apr 21, 2010

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To be racist in the past meant one held certain groups of people to be racially inferior. Today, racism often refers to situations in which "racialized" individuals feel for one reason or another uncomfortable in contact with the "white" majority. Is this a progress towards a more nuanced understanding of the nature of prejudice, or part and parcel of a new politics of diversity?

GUESTS

William Cunningham is a psychologist at Ohio State University.

Irshad Manji is director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University and the author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslims Call for Reform in Her Faith. She also produced the documentary, Faith Without Fear and is the former host of TVO's Big Ideas. Visit irshadmanji.com.

Kwame McKenzie is a Senior Scientist within the Social Equity and Health Research section of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also the Deputy Director of Continuing & Community Care in the Schizophrenia Program, a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy Diversity and Mental Health, University of Lancashire.

Jonathan Kay is comment page editor and columnist with the National Post. He is also a regular contributor to Commentary magazine and the New York Post.

Grace-Edward Galabuzi is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University.