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RACE TO EQUITY
is a dazzling, detailed view from the inside of
the experiments, successes, and mistakes in the
Toronto Board of Education's quest to provide truly
equitable education for a diverse student body.
For almost three
decades McCaskell and his colleagues fought to
reshape the system. Their attempts to deliver
anti-racism, anti-sexism, and anti-homophobia
education garnered national and international
attention.
McCaskell's astute
blend of personal reflection and political theory
illuminates a time of significant social struggle,
cultural transformation, and deep learning. Drawing
on a number of
sources--his own memories, interviews with key
participants, Board minutes, academic theory on
different aspects of the work, and the wealth of
documents produced along the way--McCaskell traces
narrative threads through the "booming buzzing
confusion" of institutional and social
transformation. The result is a magical blend of
personal reflections and political
theory.
TIM McCASKELL is a
veteran of equity activism in his home city of
Toronto. A writer, educator, and activist, he
served in the Toronto District School Board's
Equity Department as Student Programme Worker from
1983 to 2001, where he was instrumental in
developing, co-ordinating, and facilitating
anti-racist and equity programming for Toronto area
schools and their constituents. He is a founding
member of AIDS Action Now!
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