Beti’s Perspective: Using Critical Race Theory’s Composite Counterstory to Interrupt Antiracism Projects in Vancouver, BC
Building on research conducted in feminist organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, this paper explores the role, relationship, and responsibility of advocating for anti...
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Building on research conducted in feminist organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, this paper explores the role, relationship, and responsibility of advocating for antiracism and social justice in the context of antiracism projects in feminist nonprofit organizations. In doing so this paper asks: What do antiracism projects look like in feminist organizations? And how are these projects informed or interrupted by racialized and Indigenous activists within these spaces? Using critical race theory’s composite counterstory, this paper uses storytelling methodologies to understand how racialized settlers and Indigenous folks can collaborate and thrive – as they have been doing – on occupied unceded territories in Canada. Based on a series of interviews with racialized and Indigenous activists engaging in feminist nonprofit organizations, these stories shed light on contemporary realities of colonization, including collaboration within white settler systems.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c26ace73848e447cb938ac0f3f16043f2024-04-06T06:00:01ZengBrock UniversityStudies in Social Justice1911-47882024-04-0118210.26522/ssj.v18i2.3983Beti’s Perspective: Using Critical Race Theory’s Composite Counterstory to Interrupt Antiracism Projects in Vancouver, BCManjeet Birk0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8967-1518Carleton University Building on research conducted in feminist organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, this paper explores the role, relationship, and responsibility of advocating for antiracism and social justice in the context of antiracism projects in feminist nonprofit organizations. In doing so this paper asks: What do antiracism projects look like in feminist organizations? And how are these projects informed or interrupted by racialized and Indigenous activists within these spaces? Using critical race theory’s composite counterstory, this paper uses storytelling methodologies to understand how racialized settlers and Indigenous folks can collaborate and thrive – as they have been doing – on occupied unceded territories in Canada. Based on a series of interviews with racialized and Indigenous activists engaging in feminist nonprofit organizations, these stories shed light on contemporary realities of colonization, including collaboration within white settler systems. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/3983white settler systemsIndigenousnon-profit organizationsfeminist organizationscritical race theorycomposite counterstory |
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| title | Beti’s Perspective: Using Critical Race Theory’s Composite Counterstory to Interrupt Antiracism Projects in Vancouver, BC |
| title_full | Beti’s Perspective: Using Critical Race Theory’s Composite Counterstory to Interrupt Antiracism Projects in Vancouver, BC |
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| topic | white settler systems Indigenous non-profit organizations feminist organizations critical race theory composite counterstory |
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