Cynthia Levine‐rasky
Biographic Data
| ID | 4879901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Levine‐rasky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine‐rasky |
| SIGNATURE | RASKY C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9585-5826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Outside the Frame: A Critique of Chad Evans Wyatt’s RomaRising
Photographer Chad Wyatt’s RomaRising is an extensive series of black and white portraits of middle-class European Roma who have a wide range of professional occupations. By constituting the Romani subject as middle class, the exhibit defies stereotypes about this maligned group. Two key questions may be raised about its implications: Does RomaRising infer that acceptance of Roma in European society is conditional upon gaining admission to the mid…
White Allyship Means a Transfer of Power
The conspicuous shift in public opinion on issues of race, branded in 2019 as the “Great Awokening,” has reached an all-time high with protests in over 140 U.S. cities after Floyd’s murder of May 25, 2020. But will the current resurgence in protests lead to enduring change
Jewish whiteness and its others
While the majority of North American Jews identify as racially white and Ashkenazi (European), this quantitative fact sidesteps the qualitative reality of their hegemonic social positioning. Reflecting the prevailing culture in which they live, dominant Jewish communities and institutions are inadequately aware of Jews who do not identify as white and of the need to share time, space and power with them. Personal narratives by Jews of colour exce…
The ambiguous transnationalism of the Roma in Toronto
While crossing cultural and political borders and maintaining relations spanning those borders should qualify the Roma of Toronto as a transnational group, they are not easily subsumed under theories of transnationalism. Reasons pertain to the asylumseeker status of a segment of the community, as well as their ‘super-diversity’. These factors mitigate effective transnational activities. More problematic in viewing local Roma through a uniform tra…
Creative nonfiction and narrative inquiry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe, situate and justify the use of creative nonfiction as an overlooked but legitimate source of text for use in social inquiry, specifically within the ambit of narrative inquiry. What potential lies in using creative writing, creative nonfiction specifically, as a source of text in social research? How may it be subjected to modes of analysis such that it deepens understandings of substantive issues…
Designating Safety, Denying Persecution: Implications for Roma Refugee Claimants in Canada
In response to the arrival in Canada of thousands of Hungarian Roma asylum seekers, a new and restrictive refugee regime was installed. Legislation included Designated Countries of Origin or “safe” countries from which refugee claimants were stripped of some entitlements. Acceptance rates fluctuate in loose reticulation with several factors. When negative decisions are made on refugee claims, conditions of persecution in Hungary are denied even t…
They didn’t treat me as a Gypsy”: Romani Refugees in Toronto
With organized hate crime and institutionalized discrimination, thousands of European Roma have fled to Canada, where they claim refugee status. Their arrival coincided with far-ranging reforms to the refugee determination system in 2012–13 in addition to some actions aimed specifically at the Roma. Against this backdrop, former and current Romani refugee claimants substantiate the experience of migration and settlement, beginning with the first …
Research For/About/With the Community: A Montage
The complexity of conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) at a small Romani organization is described through montage. Articulating with a desire for social change and the correction of the multiple injustices meted out to those who identify as Roma, CBPR commends collaborative research with a community. However, the researcher found herself not only working with the community but also doing work for them and about them-activitie…
The exclusion of Roma claimants in Canadian refugee policy
The arrival of thousands of European Roma seeking refugee status in Canada elicited a range of legislative and policy instruments that severely restrict their acceptance and create conditions antagonistic to further admissions. Interventions have included visa restrictions, actions by Immigration and Refugee Board, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act followed by the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act, and ministerial rhetoric about the illegi…
White fear: Analyzing public objection to Toronto’s Africentric school
In September 2009, the Toronto District School Board opened a publicly funded Africentric alternative school that today serves a population of about 135 students. While the founding of the eponymous school was the result of successful advocacy on the part of African-Canadian communities in the city, it was met with controversy. Readily observed in online comments appearing in national newspapers, objection to the school was far more common than a…
Intersectionality theory applied to whiteness and middle-classness
Despite the ubiquity of intersectionality in feminism and allied methodologies, it is typically associated with the elaboration of oppression. A consideration of intersectionality theory as applied to the ‘other side’ of power relations – that is to the intersections of whiteness and middle-classness (and the complications arising from ethnicity) – enables the exploration of power in relation to the enduring inequities between groups. Dominant po…
Theorizing psychosocial processes in Canadian, middle‐class, Jewish mothers' school choice
This paper presents a psychosocial analysis of interview data of three Canadian, middle‐class, Jewish mothers engaged in processes and practices of ‘school choice’. We consider how middle‐class, white identity intersects with Jewish ethnicity. We also examine how commitments to Canadian ideals of multiculturalism sit in contradiction with investments in neo‐liberal discourses of school performance and individual academic success and competition. …
Dynamics of parent involvement at a multicultural school
This paper describes a research project that uses Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural and social capital to penetrate how middle‐class parents exercise influence and form positive relationships at the neighbourhood public school that serves various ethno‐cultural groups of students. One group of white, economically privileged students have populated the school since its founding; the others are new, immigrant, and diverse in ethnic…
The Public Poster Session
This note describes the use of a student poster session as an innovative approach to student learning. The local context for the assignment is provided, followed by a de scription of the course for which the poster was prepared, details about the assignment including its evaluation, and practical con siderations for planning a poster session. The pedagogical approach from which this assignment emerges is known as Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) (New…
White Privilege: Jewish women’s writing and the instability of categories
Whiteness, power and privilege are often conflated in critical perspectives of “race” and racialization. When white privilege intersects with Jewishness, particular challenges to this conceptualization arise. “Jewish” and “whiteness” is problematical on the basis of ethnic and “racial” difference among Jews and also because of the ways Jews have been and continue to be racialized in antisemitism. “Jewish” and “privilege” is problematical on the b…
School Choice and the Analytics of Power
Working through Whiteness: International Perspectives
Identifying the Prospective Multicultural Educator: Three Signposts, Three Portraits
Framing Whiteness: Working through the tensions in introducing whiteness to educators
Teacher education has recently encountered a radically new approach to the problem of educational inequality of racialised groups of students. Critical whiteness studies have emerged with the realisation that the failure of traditional equity education initiatives is attributable to a misidentification of change object. Reflecting the reframing of race relations work in education, dialogues on racism are shifting from the inadequacies of 'others'…
The practice of whiteness among teacher candidates
This article discusses the findings of a study on 35, mostly white teacher candidates at a Canadian university. White racial identity and beliefs about causes of educational inequality are explored in relation to the teacher candidates'; value systems. Inconsistencies are found to be integral to the teacher candidates' positions. Contextualized within the practice of whiteness, the findings raise questions about the interrelationship of inconsist…
Preservice Teacher Education and the Negotiation of Social Difference
This paper reports on the results of a research project on 35 teacher candidates in a Canadian Faculty of Education. It challenges the usual explanations of why prospective teachers are ineffective in teaching children of racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds by installing macro and meso levels of social organization that reticulate with presewice teacher education. It reveals that not only do teacher candidates defy generalization as a gro…
Transform ing Teacher Education for an Antiracism Pedagogy
It est question dans le présent article de recherches sur la pédagogie antiraciste, plus précisément de saisir comment cette dernière est perçue par les enseignants d'expérience et les étudiants en éducation, et comment elle est mise en pratique. Les avis exprimés font ressortir un large éventail de partis pris pédagogiques et idéologiques, dont celui qui voudrait que l'engagement des élèves à leur cheminement scolaire soit tributaire de l'appart…
Framing Whiteness: Working through the tensions in introducing whiteness to educators
Teacher education has recently encountered a radically new approach to the problem of educational inequality of racialised groups of students. Critical whiteness studies have emerged with the realisation that the failure of traditional equity education initiatives is attributable to a misidentification of change object. Reflecting the reframing of race relations work in education, dialogues on racism are shifting from the inadequacies of 'others'…
Intersectionality theory applied to whiteness and middle-classness
Despite the ubiquity of intersectionality in feminism and allied methodologies, it is typically associated with the elaboration of oppression. A consideration of intersectionality theory as applied to the ‘other side’ of power relations – that is to the intersections of whiteness and middle-classness (and the complications arising from ethnicity) – enables the exploration of power in relation to the enduring inequities between groups. Dominant po…
The practice of whiteness among teacher candidates
This article discusses the findings of a study on 35, mostly white teacher candidates at a Canadian university. White racial identity and beliefs about causes of educational inequality are explored in relation to the teacher candidates'; value systems. Inconsistencies are found to be integral to the teacher candidates' positions. Contextualized within the practice of whiteness, the findings raise questions about the interrelationship of inconsist…
White Privilege: Jewish women’s writing and the instability of categories
Whiteness, power and privilege are often conflated in critical perspectives of “race” and racialization. When white privilege intersects with Jewishness, particular challenges to this conceptualization arise. “Jewish” and “whiteness” is problematical on the basis of ethnic and “racial” difference among Jews and also because of the ways Jews have been and continue to be racialized in antisemitism. “Jewish” and “privilege” is problematical on the b…
Identifying the Prospective Multicultural Educator: Three Signposts, Three Portraits
The exclusion of Roma claimants in Canadian refugee policy
The arrival of thousands of European Roma seeking refugee status in Canada elicited a range of legislative and policy instruments that severely restrict their acceptance and create conditions antagonistic to further admissions. Interventions have included visa restrictions, actions by Immigration and Refugee Board, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act followed by the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act, and ministerial rhetoric about the illegi…
Transform ing Teacher Education for an Antiracism Pedagogy
It est question dans le présent article de recherches sur la pédagogie antiraciste, plus précisément de saisir comment cette dernière est perçue par les enseignants d'expérience et les étudiants en éducation, et comment elle est mise en pratique. Les avis exprimés font ressortir un large éventail de partis pris pédagogiques et idéologiques, dont celui qui voudrait que l'engagement des élèves à leur cheminement scolaire soit tributaire de l'appart…
Dynamics of parent involvement at a multicultural school
This paper describes a research project that uses Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural and social capital to penetrate how middle‐class parents exercise influence and form positive relationships at the neighbourhood public school that serves various ethno‐cultural groups of students. One group of white, economically privileged students have populated the school since its founding; the others are new, immigrant, and diverse in ethnic…
Creative nonfiction and narrative inquiry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe, situate and justify the use of creative nonfiction as an overlooked but legitimate source of text for use in social inquiry, specifically within the ambit of narrative inquiry. What potential lies in using creative writing, creative nonfiction specifically, as a source of text in social research? How may it be subjected to modes of analysis such that it deepens understandings of substantive issues…
Jewish whiteness and its others
While the majority of North American Jews identify as racially white and Ashkenazi (European), this quantitative fact sidesteps the qualitative reality of their hegemonic social positioning. Reflecting the prevailing culture in which they live, dominant Jewish communities and institutions are inadequately aware of Jews who do not identify as white and of the need to share time, space and power with them. Personal narratives by Jews of colour exce…
Designating Safety, Denying Persecution: Implications for Roma Refugee Claimants in Canada
In response to the arrival in Canada of thousands of Hungarian Roma asylum seekers, a new and restrictive refugee regime was installed. Legislation included Designated Countries of Origin or “safe” countries from which refugee claimants were stripped of some entitlements. Acceptance rates fluctuate in loose reticulation with several factors. When negative decisions are made on refugee claims, conditions of persecution in Hungary are denied even t…
They didn’t treat me as a Gypsy”: Romani Refugees in Toronto
With organized hate crime and institutionalized discrimination, thousands of European Roma have fled to Canada, where they claim refugee status. Their arrival coincided with far-ranging reforms to the refugee determination system in 2012–13 in addition to some actions aimed specifically at the Roma. Against this backdrop, former and current Romani refugee claimants substantiate the experience of migration and settlement, beginning with the first …
Research For/About/With the Community: A Montage
The complexity of conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) at a small Romani organization is described through montage. Articulating with a desire for social change and the correction of the multiple injustices meted out to those who identify as Roma, CBPR commends collaborative research with a community. However, the researcher found herself not only working with the community but also doing work for them and about them-activitie…
White fear: Analyzing public objection to Toronto’s Africentric school
In September 2009, the Toronto District School Board opened a publicly funded Africentric alternative school that today serves a population of about 135 students. While the founding of the eponymous school was the result of successful advocacy on the part of African-Canadian communities in the city, it was met with controversy. Readily observed in online comments appearing in national newspapers, objection to the school was far more common than a…
School Choice and the Analytics of Power
Preservice Teacher Education and the Negotiation of Social Difference
This paper reports on the results of a research project on 35 teacher candidates in a Canadian Faculty of Education. It challenges the usual explanations of why prospective teachers are ineffective in teaching children of racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds by installing macro and meso levels of social organization that reticulate with presewice teacher education. It reveals that not only do teacher candidates defy generalization as a gro…
Transform ing Teacher Education for an Antiracism Pedagogy
It est question dans le présent article de recherches sur la pédagogie antiraciste, plus précisément de saisir comment cette dernière est perçue par les enseignants d'expérience et les étudiants en éducation, et comment elle est mise en pratique. Les avis exprimés font ressortir un large éventail de partis pris pédagogiques et idéologiques, dont celui qui voudrait que l'engagement des élèves à leur cheminement scolaire soit tributaire de l'appart…
Preservice Teacher Education and the Negotiation of Social Difference
This paper reports on the results of a research project on 35 teacher candidates in a Canadian Faculty of Education. It challenges the usual explanations of why prospective teachers are ineffective in teaching children of racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds by installing macro and meso levels of social organization that reticulate with presewice teacher education. It reveals that not only do teacher candidates defy generalization as a gro…
Framing Whiteness: Working through the tensions in introducing whiteness to educators
Teacher education has recently encountered a radically new approach to the problem of educational inequality of racialised groups of students. Critical whiteness studies have emerged with the realisation that the failure of traditional equity education initiatives is attributable to a misidentification of change object. Reflecting the reframing of race relations work in education, dialogues on racism are shifting from the inadequacies of 'others'…
The practice of whiteness among teacher candidates
This article discusses the findings of a study on 35, mostly white teacher candidates at a Canadian university. White racial identity and beliefs about causes of educational inequality are explored in relation to the teacher candidates'; value systems. Inconsistencies are found to be integral to the teacher candidates' positions. Contextualized within the practice of whiteness, the findings raise questions about the interrelationship of inconsist…
Identifying the Prospective Multicultural Educator: Three Signposts, Three Portraits
Working through Whiteness: International Perspectives
School Choice and the Analytics of Power
White Privilege: Jewish women’s writing and the instability of categories
Whiteness, power and privilege are often conflated in critical perspectives of “race” and racialization. When white privilege intersects with Jewishness, particular challenges to this conceptualization arise. “Jewish” and “whiteness” is problematical on the basis of ethnic and “racial” difference among Jews and also because of the ways Jews have been and continue to be racialized in antisemitism. “Jewish” and “privilege” is problematical on the b…
Theorizing psychosocial processes in Canadian, middle‐class, Jewish mothers' school choice
This paper presents a psychosocial analysis of interview data of three Canadian, middle‐class, Jewish mothers engaged in processes and practices of ‘school choice’. We consider how middle‐class, white identity intersects with Jewish ethnicity. We also examine how commitments to Canadian ideals of multiculturalism sit in contradiction with investments in neo‐liberal discourses of school performance and individual academic success and competition. …
Dynamics of parent involvement at a multicultural school
This paper describes a research project that uses Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural and social capital to penetrate how middle‐class parents exercise influence and form positive relationships at the neighbourhood public school that serves various ethno‐cultural groups of students. One group of white, economically privileged students have populated the school since its founding; the others are new, immigrant, and diverse in ethnic…
The Public Poster Session
This note describes the use of a student poster session as an innovative approach to student learning. The local context for the assignment is provided, followed by a de scription of the course for which the poster was prepared, details about the assignment including its evaluation, and practical con siderations for planning a poster session. The pedagogical approach from which this assignment emerges is known as Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) (New…
Intersectionality theory applied to whiteness and middle-classness
Despite the ubiquity of intersectionality in feminism and allied methodologies, it is typically associated with the elaboration of oppression. A consideration of intersectionality theory as applied to the ‘other side’ of power relations – that is to the intersections of whiteness and middle-classness (and the complications arising from ethnicity) – enables the exploration of power in relation to the enduring inequities between groups. Dominant po…
White fear: Analyzing public objection to Toronto’s Africentric school
In September 2009, the Toronto District School Board opened a publicly funded Africentric alternative school that today serves a population of about 135 students. While the founding of the eponymous school was the result of successful advocacy on the part of African-Canadian communities in the city, it was met with controversy. Readily observed in online comments appearing in national newspapers, objection to the school was far more common than a…
The exclusion of Roma claimants in Canadian refugee policy
The arrival of thousands of European Roma seeking refugee status in Canada elicited a range of legislative and policy instruments that severely restrict their acceptance and create conditions antagonistic to further admissions. Interventions have included visa restrictions, actions by Immigration and Refugee Board, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act followed by the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act, and ministerial rhetoric about the illegi…
Research For/About/With the Community: A Montage
The complexity of conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) at a small Romani organization is described through montage. Articulating with a desire for social change and the correction of the multiple injustices meted out to those who identify as Roma, CBPR commends collaborative research with a community. However, the researcher found herself not only working with the community but also doing work for them and about them-activitie…
They didn’t treat me as a Gypsy”: Romani Refugees in Toronto
With organized hate crime and institutionalized discrimination, thousands of European Roma have fled to Canada, where they claim refugee status. Their arrival coincided with far-ranging reforms to the refugee determination system in 2012–13 in addition to some actions aimed specifically at the Roma. Against this backdrop, former and current Romani refugee claimants substantiate the experience of migration and settlement, beginning with the first …
Designating Safety, Denying Persecution: Implications for Roma Refugee Claimants in Canada
In response to the arrival in Canada of thousands of Hungarian Roma asylum seekers, a new and restrictive refugee regime was installed. Legislation included Designated Countries of Origin or “safe” countries from which refugee claimants were stripped of some entitlements. Acceptance rates fluctuate in loose reticulation with several factors. When negative decisions are made on refugee claims, conditions of persecution in Hungary are denied even t…
The ambiguous transnationalism of the Roma in Toronto
While crossing cultural and political borders and maintaining relations spanning those borders should qualify the Roma of Toronto as a transnational group, they are not easily subsumed under theories of transnationalism. Reasons pertain to the asylumseeker status of a segment of the community, as well as their ‘super-diversity’. These factors mitigate effective transnational activities. More problematic in viewing local Roma through a uniform tra…
Creative nonfiction and narrative inquiry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe, situate and justify the use of creative nonfiction as an overlooked but legitimate source of text for use in social inquiry, specifically within the ambit of narrative inquiry. What potential lies in using creative writing, creative nonfiction specifically, as a source of text in social research? How may it be subjected to modes of analysis such that it deepens understandings of substantive issues…
White Allyship Means a Transfer of Power
The conspicuous shift in public opinion on issues of race, branded in 2019 as the “Great Awokening,” has reached an all-time high with protests in over 140 U.S. cities after Floyd’s murder of May 25, 2020. But will the current resurgence in protests lead to enduring change
Jewish whiteness and its others
While the majority of North American Jews identify as racially white and Ashkenazi (European), this quantitative fact sidesteps the qualitative reality of their hegemonic social positioning. Reflecting the prevailing culture in which they live, dominant Jewish communities and institutions are inadequately aware of Jews who do not identify as white and of the need to share time, space and power with them. Personal narratives by Jews of colour exce…
Outside the Frame: A Critique of Chad Evans Wyatt’s RomaRising
Photographer Chad Wyatt’s RomaRising is an extensive series of black and white portraits of middle-class European Roma who have a wide range of professional occupations. By constituting the Romani subject as middle class, the exhibit defies stereotypes about this maligned group. Two key questions may be raised about its implications: Does RomaRising infer that acceptance of Roma in European society is conditional upon gaining admission to the mid…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Anthropology (6 works)