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Colonialism can be seen as a historical process, or an ideology. As this article demonstrates, for Canadian Doukhobors, it is also a lived experience. Canadian Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers, are a group of pacifist religious dissenters of mixed ethnic origins who immigrated to Canada from the Russian Empire in 1899. The worldview of the Doukhobors was radically different from the principles on which the colonial government was founded. The goal of this article is to describe the colonial policies directed towards the Doukhobors, their anticolonial struggles, and to consider the implications of the Doukhobor history for contemporary anti-colonial thought in Canada and worldwide. The government subjected Doukhobors to a range of discriminatory actions including cancellation of earlier granted land registries in Saskatchewan, incarcerations for refusal of military service (despite an existing legal exemption), taking away children of some Doukhobors and placing them in a juvenile detention center to force the assimilation. While considering the significance of the Doukhobor struggles against colonialism, the article proposes a new term, 'colonial privilege.' This article is reflexive and sheds a new light on the earlier recorded facts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the findings of a qualitative study which was undertaken to examine the speech patterns of Canadian university administrators when discussing their perspectives of (1) the barriers to and enablers of educational equity and (2) the extent to which their identity/positionality influences their leadership capacity to advance educational equity. The study aimed to uncover and examine the dominant ideological perspectives and discursive practices of senior administrators in relation to educational equity. The findings uncover discourses of democratic racism across the ten narrative interviews. An analysis of the ideologies underpinning these discursive barriers suggests that change agency is related to both diverse leadership and diversity leadership – identity/positionality and consciousness/proficiency to influence change. The paper reinforces calls for sectorwide and institution-specific efforts (1) to diversify senior administrative teams, with a particular emphasis on cabinet level racial and gender diversity, and (2) to increase the level of proficiency among senior administrative teams to effect more transformative change. Moreover, the paper suggests that contemporary and critical models of leadership, governance, and organizational change are needed to meaningfully advance and account for EDI change in the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interviews with Indigenous and settler players on the Beardy's Blackhawks Midget AAA hockey team, as well as with those players' parents, unanimously acknowledge racism directed at Indigenous players during the team's most recent season. More insidiously, the interviews register social pressures within hockey culture that discourage reactions to such racism and thereby condition acquiescence to and potential reproduction of oppressive colonial conditions. As one First Nation parent states, "you just kind of get used to it and... either shrug it off or retaliate. We've really chosen to shrug it off for the most part." This paper ruminates on the manufacture of compliance in order to interrogate the internalization of various tropes in hockey culture that, we argue, conspire to sustain racialized oppression in the game. In doing so, we advocate for the implementation of decolonial anti-racism strategies at all levels of the sport. Des entrevues avec des joueurs autochtones et allogènes du club de hockey Beardy's Blackhawks Midget AAA, ainsi qu'avec les parents de ces joueurs, reconnaissent unanimement le racisme envers les joueurs autochtones au cours de la dernière saison de l'équipe. Plus insidieusement, les entrevues enregistrent des pressions sociales au sein de la culture du hockey qui découragent les réactions à un tel racisme et conditionnent ainsi l'acquiescement et la regénénération potentielle des conditions coloniales oppressives. Comme le dit un parent authochtone, « on s'y habitue en quelque sorte et... soit on l'ignore, soit on riposte. Nous avons vraiment choisi de ne pas en tenir compte pour la plupart. » Cet article retourne la question du façonnage de la conformité dans le but de scruter l'inhérence, de divers clichés dans la culture du hockey qui, selon nous, conspirent pour soutenir l'oppression racialisée dans le match. Ce faisant, nous plaidons pour la mise en œuvre de stratégies antiracistes décoloniales à tous les niveaux du sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nanaimo, British Columbia, on the east coast of Canada's Vancouver Island, was one of the places where Japanese Canadians settled during the twentieth century. In 2018, I published an article in the Canadian Geographer titled, "An anti-racism methodology: The Native Sons and Daughters and racism against Asians in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada", with the goal of using my family's involvement in organizations associated with racism against Asian Canadians to modestly contribute to developing an anti-racism methodology. More recently, I have reconnected with other relatives (small-scale fishermen) who developed close relationships with Japanese Canadian fishing families, both before and after the 1940s. This article considers one Japanese Canadian family in Nanaimo before World War II, during "internment", and after the war in Japan and then in Canada upon their return to their "homeland" in the 1950s and 1960s. I am particularly interested in everyday acts of friendship, particularly during tense periods, as it is important to not only reveal past injustices, but also to recognize and better understand cases when white people treated Japanese Canadians with respect, and also advocated for them when such actions were not fashionable. This sort of non-racist behaviour can constitute part of an anti-Asian racism methodology. This article also has implications for thinking about present-day immigration and deportation politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]