University education and Black youth

Despite the growing racial diversity of today’s student population and universities’ claims of being inclusive, the whiteness and the colonial structure of the system remains.

Numerous studies have shown that during high school, Black students are discouraged by teachers and guidance counsellors from enrolling in academic programs that would prepare them for university, writes York University's Carl James. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY CARL JAMES

September 16, 2020

In Statistics Canada’s recent report, Changes in the socioeconomic situation of Canada’s Black population, 2001 to 2016, René Houle writes that “one of the main challenges” faced by members of Canadi...

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