This presentation is an attempt to make sense of the bleeding geographical racial line between the United States and Canada that Canada has, historically, asserted itself as distinct from and also simply, to theorize the ways that the past generates a linear pathway to the present. The site of entry is the Canadian public schooling system and its history of anti-Black racism-distinct in many ways from the US, but akin to this neighbor with its fact of institutional racism nonetheless. This presentation is also an attempt to connect the past with the present and generate a wider conversation that elongates this question: Where the past comes to bear on the present, what are the responsibilities of those of us standing in the present? And finally, in the context of institutional racism in public schooling: What are the costs of failing to claim this history? This final question aims to shot put a discussion of corrective justice into the center of the field of Canadian critical race theory and set the stage, eventually, for a much longer, separate discussion about how wrongs may be made right against Black Canadians. It is my greatest hope, as well, that this expanding conversation becomes useful to other groups in Canada impacted by its history of white settler colonialism.
Rachel Zellars is currently a PhD student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill. Her research focuses on children in slavery in Canada, institutional racism in public schooling, and critical race theory. She founded the first university wide course on critical race theory in education, a course she moderates every winter term in her department. She is also a single mother to three beautiful children, Zora, Ade, and Sade. Six years ago, she founded a private French Montessori preschool for her children, focused on anti-racist and environmental education. She is currently working on a project to expand her school, The Green School, to a private elementary school focused anti-racist and anti-colonial education. In another life, she worked as a litigator. Before law school, she obtained a masters degree from Cornell University and studied philosophy at Howard University and Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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