Whiteness is not a new, or newly named, phenomenon. We don’t all know the same things about whiteness, but its existence as a problem and as a problem of racism, has been thoroughly revealed and explained. The time for naming whiteness as a newly urgent problem has long passed and the moral responsibility and possibility for white people is to act in response to the evidence that there is a problem.
In this workshop, let’s talk about this as a starting point: that whiteness is a problem of racism. What happens, what can happen, if anti-racist education and action starts there? This is a workshop for all people, whatever our experiences and thoughts about whiteness. What happens, what can happen, if we recognize that racism is a problem and whiteness is part of it. What then can we do? About Dr. Lynn Caldwell:
Lynn Caldwell teaches and writes about ethics, education, equity issues and especially about confronting nostalgic attachments to white settler stories. She is co-editor, with Carrianne Leung and Darryl Leroux of Critical Inquiries: A Reader in Studies of Canada, a collection of writings by scholars who examine the making of Canada as an ongoing colonial project. She has taught courses on anti-racism and anti-oppression to pre-service teachers and graduate students in education, undergraduate students of Sociology, and to theology students. Lynn has a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education from OISE/UT and lives in Saskatoon.

About Dr. Lynn Caldwell:
Lynn Caldwell teaches and writes about ethics, education, equity issues and especially about confronting nostalgic attachments to white settler stories. She is co-editor, with Carrianne Leung and Darryl Leroux of Critical Inquiries: A Reader in Studies of Canada, a collection of writings by scholars who examine the making of Canada as an ongoing colonial project. She has taught courses on anti-racism and anti-oppression to pre-service teachers and graduate students in education, undergraduate students of Sociology, and to theology students. Lynn has a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education from OISE/UT and lives in Saskatoon.