The Problem With 60 Second Nation Building Videos

Tara T.

Factsheet

Description

This factsheet higlights how white supremacy structures Canada's past and present by challenging the erasure, denial and omission of white supremacy in Historica Canada's Heritage Minute on the 'Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.' The factsheet offers a deeper look into the story of black sleeping car porters in Canada and speaks to racial segregation, white supremacist employment practices and the political mobilization of the black community in being their own agents of change.

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