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HARP-253 |
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In but not at home: women of colour in the academy |
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Resources for Feminist Research, April 2001, Vol. 29, No. 1-2; Pg. 125(10); ISSN: 0707-8412, 03486253 |
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2001 |
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Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, equity, human rights, non-discrimination, United Kingdom/Great Britain, woman, Australia Australia, racism, civil and political rights, education, Commonwealth, Third World countries |
Abstract: |
Canadian universities are no alma maters to women of colour like myself, despite their highsounding mission statements and loud proclamations about equity and diversity. I have paid for their racism many times over, starting from the date when I first arrived in Canada in 1971 to do graduate work as a Commonwealth Scholar from India. While Commonwealth Scholars from the “old” Commonwealth, i.e., Britain, Australia and New Zealand, were admitted to a one-year Master’s program, I, from the “new” Commonwealth, was asked to do a two-year M.A. The first year was to be spent doing “make up” undergraduate courses. It did not matter that I already had a Master’s degree, and the students from the “old” Commonwealth didn’t. Nor did it matter that I had already been teaching at the university level in India and had three years of research experience to boot. The graduate program officers had not arrived at their decision by interviewing me or administering a test. This was how they routinely evaluated applicants from Ind ia and other Third World countries. |
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Keywords: Australia, Canada, civil and political rights, Commonwealth, cultural rights, economic, education, employment, equity, human rights, non-discrimination, racial discrimination/racism, social, Third World countries, United Kingdom/Great Britain, woman