CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN ANTIRACISM - AN INTRODUCTION

This special issue of the CRSA aims to explore new ways of thinking ab out antiracism praxis in multiracial contexts. The papers in this issu e examine antiracism praxis from varying and intersecting backgrounds and positions. They present a broad view of antiracism extending from teacher education to antiracism workshop training. They build on exist ing scholarship in critical antiracism as a pedagogical discourse and a communicative and political practice. A key question is: How we can ensure that antiracism discourse and practice connect to achieve educa tional and transformative social change? While the theoretical and met hodological underpinnings of antiracism are still in the formative sta ge, the essays will add to ongoing attempts to (re)conceptualize antir acism from its original formulations. This article begins the dialogue by specifying an antiracism discursive framework and the implications of antiracism's basic tenets for transformative learning and social c hange. It explores some of the ways that antiracism knowledge can be c onstructed, produced and disseminated, particularly (but not exclusive ly) in Euro-Canadian/American contexts, and highlights some of the cha llenges that current globalization processes provide for education and social change, and the rationale for engaging in antiracism praxis.