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Professor Philip Howard, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, has contributed an article to聽The Conversation聽on the subject of the recent highly publicized "beef"聽between rappers Drake and Pusha-T.

Pusha T circulated a photograph that showed Canadian musician Drake wearing blackface. Professor Philip Howard, who has been leading a project researching blackface in Canada, provides an analysis of some of the issues.聽

"Black life today continues to be entangled in social relations that are extensions of the antiblack relations of slavery," writes Dr. Howard in part. Please聽

Dr. Philip Howard聽is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Education at 91社区. His research interests are in the social formations, pedagogical processes, and epistemological frames that mediate the ways we come to know ourselves, create community, and exercise agency for social and racial justice in/through formal and informal.聽Professor Howard serves on the editorial board with the journal聽Whiteness and Education,聽is a Consulting Editor with the聽Canadian Journal of Education, and belongs to the executive team of the Black Canadian Studies Association. He recently led聽the聽SSHRC-funded project "The Arts Against Postracialism: Strengthening Resistance Against Contemporary Canadian Blackface",聽a series of outreach events seeking to strengthen resistance against contemporary Canadian blackface.聽

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