Understanding and Unlearning anti-Black Racism

Dr. Wesley Crichlow is the first past Associate Dean, Equity at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, a Professor within their Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, in the youth and criminology specialization, and the Chair of the President’s Equity Taskforce.

Dr. Wesley Crichlow (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1998) is a full professor whose work intersectionally employs Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory and Anti-Black Racist Scholarly Activism as the signature framing, praxis and naming of his research teaching and service. His work aims to provide incremental measures to alleviate anti-Black racism, structural, and systemic inequalities. He teaches at Ontario Tech University (2003-present) within the youth and criminal justice discipline with over 25 years of university community mobilization and development.

Learning Objectives:

• To provide an intersectional framework for understanding slavery, colonialism and Anti-Black Racism (ABR)

• Highlight how ABR is reproduced in the curriculum

• Highlight how our behaviors, attitudes and institutional policies reproduce ABR oppression

• To provide methods, language and tools for disrupting ABR in conversations with others

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