ABSTRACT
This chapter draws explicitly on two different periods and cities of my teaching trajectory in British Columbia, Canada, by engaging with comments from student course evaluations in 2012 and my own self-reflective journaling in 2005/6. The “university” has two campuses in different cities where I taught. The first is a large urban city known for its “multicultural and diverse climate” that I refer to as “Port-Louis,” and the other is a smaller, White, conservative, Christian city, which I’ll name “Rosehill.” The making and development of both campuses came to exist on occupied unceded Indigenous 1 territories. I will refer to both campuses as “the university”. The university, itself a colonial development project for the White elites, teaches the naturalization of the field of whiteness and how racialized Others must be reproduced and regulated within Canada, a White settler society. My teaching for this university has been predominately in the areas of women’s and gender studies and sociology.
