Unpacking Whiteness and White Investment in the Status Quo

This session is open to all Humber staff and faculty.

Session objectives include:

  • Unpacking our racial biographies to better understand the role of race in our professional and personal lives;
  • Exploring racial socialization with a focus on the ways white people learn race, racism and white supremacy culture;
  • Recognizing the relationship between racial identity politics, and the operations of race, racism, and white supremacy culture at the institutional, structural and systemic levels;
  • Critically examining white investment in the status quo.

Register now - an MS Teams link will be shared with attendees prior to the event date.

About Arlo Kempf

Arlo Kempf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, of the University of Toronto. Arlo was also a Banting Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. His areas of research expertise include critical whiteness, antiracism, anticolonialism, inclusion, and equity in education, as well as neoliberalism in education. Arlo was Director of OISE’s Teacher Education Program from 2015-2020, and has been working in teacher education for the past 15 years. Arlo is the Editor of the internationally renowned education journal Curriculum Inquiry. His sixth and most recent book is entitled Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education: Critical Perspectives, co-edited with Sandra Styres (University of Alberta Press, 2022). Arlo’s research has been published in a variety of top tier journals, and he regularly speaks at Canadian and international education conferences. His Ted Ed Talk on standardized testing has been viewed nearly one million times. Before becoming a professor, Arlo was a high school teacher for seven years in Toronto.

Brought to you by The Unlearning Circle with the support of the EDI Taskforce. For more information, contact The Unlearning Circle facilitators: Sara Jouppi, Regan Mancini, or Lisa Salem-Wiseman.