ABSTRACT
K. A. Escayg et al. in their careful and scholarly analysis of antiracism in the paper entitled “Canadian children and race: Toward an antiracism analysis” open their piece by asking if the reader knows how Canada’s approach to dealing with racism started. After a while of expecting racism to decline because Canadian schools were operating with a multicultural programme of celebrating diversity, there was no apparent improvement in schools. The immigrants were certainly not all white but their decision to adopt Whiteness in behaviour, life-style and values revealed how they effectively ignored the realities of the society they had adopted and in doing that they were denying that there was any racism. The project was inspired by G. MacNaughton’s earlier research studies which offered a methodological and analytical map to use in order to address the children’s views on race and racism.
