What the Project is About:
“Faces of Racism: Everyday Racialized Encounters in Windsor Essex” is a community research partnership project led by University of Windsor research in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This project is seeking to challenge racism by exploring the ongoing marginalization and racialized experiences of ACB women that come about in multiple domains including un/under employment, lack of access to legal support, cultural disempowerment and stress to family and community. By doing so, we aim to fill the gap by looking at the intersection, integration, and accumulation of systemic oppression that are often disregarded in relevant research. This will be achieved through community engagement, administration of surveys, focus group discussions and interviews.
Aims of the Project:
1) Collect ACB women’s experiences and stories from their perspective through a mixed method methodology
2) To challenge racism by implementing and developing strategies for ACB women
3) Build solidarity and engagement among community partners, ACB women-centred organizations, and legal and social science researchers through understanding and challenging racist discrimination
4)To challenge gendered racism by building and promoting the institutional capacity of community-based organizations
5) Contribute to the formulation of programs and policies to enhance federal, provincial, and municipal antiracist knowledge and legal frameworks through evidentiary repository of racism
6) Promote community engagement and outreach around community-based knowledge of race and antiracism in the community, among students, faculty and emerging scholars, and institutional participants by holding community forums, a conference and social media activities
7) Set the stage for developing a broader cross-racial alliance to challenge systemic racism and develop an interdisciplinary and inter-faculty research-praxis hub in WE to mentor students, emerging scholars and community members.