Notice Board

The Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) presents a session discussing storytelling and its role in understanding the experiences of people of colour.

Is Storytelling a Means to Reveal Racism in the Daily Experiences of People of Colour?

Thursday March 10, 2022, from 12 to 1 p.m. MST

YouTube Live link: https://youtu.be/mwY7vEhgVAs

Race is a central concept in the subordination of Black people in Canada and the United States. Yet race has not always been considered as a vital research variable in studies in North America. The speaker will explore how and why storytelling and counter-narrative has emerged as a methodology to unpack race, racism, belonging, and power in a settler-colonial nation-state like Canada. In other words, storytelling develops as a fundamental methodology in critical race theory tradition exposing the daily encounters of racism experienced by people of colour in societies that are colour-blind and race neutral like Canada and the U.S.

Speaker: Ibrahim Turay

Ibrahim Turay is a full-time faculty in the School of Justice Studies at Lethbridge College and a PhD candidate in cultural, social, and political thought at the University of Lethbridge. He has a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Alberta, with 11 years of experience working for Alberta Justice & Solicitor General, Correctional Services Division, as a correctional, probation, and senior probation officer. Ibrahim's specialty is in counter-storytelling as a critical race theory methodology. His professional interests include Black youth-police interactions, racialization, racial profiling, marginalization, youth gangs, and corrections.

In order to ask questions of our speaker in the chat feature of YouTube, you must have a YouTube account and be signed in. Please do so well ahead of the scheduled start time, so you’ll be ready. Go the YouTube Live link provided in this session flyer and on the top right of your browser click the “sign in” button. If you have Google or Gmail accounts, they can be used to sign in. If you don’t, click “Create Account” and follow along. Once you are signed in, you can return to the live stream and use the chat feature to ask your questions of the speaker. Remember, you can only participate in the chat feature while we are livestreaming.

Link to SACPA’s YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/SouthernAlbertaCouncilonPublicAffairs

For further information on the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs, visit the SACPA website.