Rhonda C George
Biographic Data
| ID | 6507573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhonda C George |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhonda C |
| FAMILY NAME | George |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGE R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8516-9352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Persistently Present, Yet Invisible? Exploring the Experiences of High-Achieving Black Students in the Greater Toronto Area
Through employing critical race theory, seen-invisibility, and circuits of dispossession as theoretical frames, this article complicates discourses around equity and Black student achievement by examining the underexplored experiences of high-achieving Black Canadian students in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Drawing on focus group data with four adolescent participants, the study finds that they experienced violent forms of racialization in the…
“We The North”? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship
The Toronto Raptors’ 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship win, a first for the franchise and for a Canadian team, “turned hockey country into basketball nation” ( CBC Radio 2020 ). Canadians’ burgeoning embrace of the team and the sport seemed to point to a growing celebration of Blackness within the nation. However, we problematize the 2019 championship win to tell a more expansive story about how sport and national myths conc…
They Just Dash Us to the Side”
Using Black Feminist Theory and qualitative data gathered from 20 Black Canadian female U.S. athletic scholarship recipients, this article identifies race–gender barriers to accessing informal athletic spaces for athletic training such as recreation centers and public gyms. I argue that these access barriers are rooted in a sexist anti-Blackness, while also examining the resistance and navigational strategies employed by the participants such as …
Changes in the perception of school climate and self-identified race in two Toronto cohorts
Drawing on Toronto District School Board (TDSB) Student Census data (2006 and 2011), we examine if there have been changes in the perceptions of school climate between two cohorts of high school students. First, we contextualize our study and review relevant policy changes to student inclusion and equity to set the stages for examining, by way of a sort of “natural experiment”, to see if there was a change in the perception of school climate by s…
Ignoring race
Racial equity in Canadian education remains elusive. Despite Canada’s status as a multicultural nation, many minority students continue to be marginalised. In this article, we compare equity-related education policy in two Canadian provinces – Ontario and British Columbia – to ascertain how race and racialized students are understood in official documents. After reviewing provincial policy contexts from the early 1990s onward, we discuss the resu…
Carl E.James, Life at the Intersection
Life at the Intersection: Community, Class and Schooling by Carl E. James contributes to the thin literature that explores the often negatively portrayed community of Jane and Finch in Toronto. Just minutes away from York University, Jane and Finch has been plagued with a reputation as a dysfunctional, unsafe, and potentially the most “at risk community” in the nation. In Life at the Intersection, James provides a counter narrative that challenge…
Ignoring race
Racial equity in Canadian education remains elusive. Despite Canada’s status as a multicultural nation, many minority students continue to be marginalised. In this article, we compare equity-related education policy in two Canadian provinces – Ontario and British Columbia – to ascertain how race and racialized students are understood in official documents. After reviewing provincial policy contexts from the early 1990s onward, we discuss the resu…
Carl E.James, Life at the Intersection
Life at the Intersection: Community, Class and Schooling by Carl E. James contributes to the thin literature that explores the often negatively portrayed community of Jane and Finch in Toronto. Just minutes away from York University, Jane and Finch has been plagued with a reputation as a dysfunctional, unsafe, and potentially the most “at risk community” in the nation. In Life at the Intersection, James provides a counter narrative that challenge…
Ignoring race
Racial equity in Canadian education remains elusive. Despite Canada’s status as a multicultural nation, many minority students continue to be marginalised. In this article, we compare equity-related education policy in two Canadian provinces – Ontario and British Columbia – to ascertain how race and racialized students are understood in official documents. After reviewing provincial policy contexts from the early 1990s onward, we discuss the resu…
Changes in the perception of school climate and self-identified race in two Toronto cohorts
Drawing on Toronto District School Board (TDSB) Student Census data (2006 and 2011), we examine if there have been changes in the perceptions of school climate between two cohorts of high school students. First, we contextualize our study and review relevant policy changes to student inclusion and equity to set the stages for examining, by way of a sort of “natural experiment”, to see if there was a change in the perception of school climate by s…
“We The North”? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship
The Toronto Raptors’ 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship win, a first for the franchise and for a Canadian team, “turned hockey country into basketball nation” ( CBC Radio 2020 ). Canadians’ burgeoning embrace of the team and the sport seemed to point to a growing celebration of Blackness within the nation. However, we problematize the 2019 championship win to tell a more expansive story about how sport and national myths conc…
They Just Dash Us to the Side”
Using Black Feminist Theory and qualitative data gathered from 20 Black Canadian female U.S. athletic scholarship recipients, this article identifies race–gender barriers to accessing informal athletic spaces for athletic training such as recreation centers and public gyms. I argue that these access barriers are rooted in a sexist anti-Blackness, while also examining the resistance and navigational strategies employed by the participants such as …
Persistently Present, Yet Invisible? Exploring the Experiences of High-Achieving Black Students in the Greater Toronto Area
Through employing critical race theory, seen-invisibility, and circuits of dispossession as theoretical frames, this article complicates discourses around equity and Black student achievement by examining the underexplored experiences of high-achieving Black Canadian students in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Drawing on focus group data with four adolescent participants, the study finds that they experienced violent forms of racialization in the…
Gender Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Critical race theory (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Race (biology (3 works) · American Sports and Literature (2 works) · Basketball (2 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (2 works)