Viewing the Toronto Education System through an Anti-Racist Framework
The Systematic Oppression of Black Youth in Toronto Based on Geography, Race and Class
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This chapter explores intersectionalities and the systematic oppression of Black youth viewed through a critical anti-racist framework. Herbert focuses on how the spatiality of race and class influences the education curriculum offered to youth in high priority neighbourhoods in Toronto. The main discussion centres on the effect of racialized streaming and negative perceptions of Black youth, which results in further marginalization as exemplified by the forty-percent dropout rate, and the continued cycle of poverty experienced by these youth. This study offers a critique of the popular democratic education framework based solutions, juxtaposing them to Afrocentric and anti-racist based solutions and strategies. The hope is to influence curriculum and equity practices and policies in Toronto schooling, to move towards Afrocentric and anti-racist based solutions and strategies.