Recent and on-going events challenge taken-for-granted beliefs that we have achieved universal civil rights and racial equity, particularly for Black and Indigenous peoples across Canada. This country’s official discourse as a multicultural nation belies the entrenched systemic and institutionalized Eurocentric ideology that persists in education, the justice system, labour markets and the economy, health care, research, and that structures our day-to-day lives and interactions. Public sociology has an important role to play in mapping such inequities and in confronting dominant ideas, assumptions, and practices in scholarship and in everyday lives. With this aim, this year’s RCPS workshops join broader dialogues and calls to action around several related themes: racial equity, Indigenous knowledges, and research ethics.
