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Racism in Residential Schools in Canada
According to Charlotte and Sarab (2016), by Canadian aristocrats insisting on concerns
that are collective like good governance, order, and peace means that national projects in the
forms of schooling are regarded vis-à-vis their impacts on the general society. Attention has to be
put on the strategies and policies as well as how such procedures and policies lead to changes in
students' lives to create a deeper understanding of the Canadian education framework. The
Canadian education system, like those of other western countries, has undergone a lot of growth
(Grant, 2016).
On the other hand, such growth is associated with moral, cultural, and political behavior.
Other aspects that cause such change include but not limited to wage-labor economy emergence,
other concepts of family and childhood, as well as the reorganization of the society to create
institutions (Grant, 2016). By the end of the 20th century, the institutional network of Canada
had already recognized businesses, hospitals, welfare agencies, prisons, and schools. In the end,
such developments get associated with the increasing level of racism and ethnicity in Canadian
residential schools that cause detrimental impacts on students’ lives. Otherwise, Canadian
education systems are the most racial institutions in the country (Grant, 2016).
To determine how different authors and literature sources have helped in realizing the
thesis statement of this activity, four literature sources will get elaborated herein. The first is
“Aboriginal Experiences Racism and its Impacts” by Charlotte and Sarab. The second is
“Canada's racial divide - Confronting racism in our backyard” by Tavia Grant. The third is
“Seven Fallen Feathers - Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City’ by Talaga Tanya
and finally, yet importantly, is “Racism in Our Schools - What to Know about It; How to Fight
It” by Darlyn Mentor. However, before embarking on contrasting and comparing issues

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discussed in the four sources, it is important to distinguish two important terms highly used
across the four identified sources, “racialize” and “racism” (Grant, 2016). The Australian Human
Rights Commission statistics show that many whites do think that they are better than the blacks.
Contrary to that opinion, thinking that an individual is better than the other because of his or her
race is baseless and inappropriate. Racism is wrong, and there is no excuse for the same.
Therefore, racism is a means of dividing people into the aspects of “them” and “us” and on the
grounds of skin tone or color. On the other hand, the definition as given is several research
documents such as “Aerriam-Webster” on “to racialize” states that it is ‘to give something or
someone a racial character.'
On racism, racial implications, and racialization of students in residential schools in
Canada, Charlotte, and Sarab(2016) on “Aboriginal Experiences Racism and its Impacts”
believe that there is the need to fight aboriginal racism in Canada. As argued by the two authors,
it may be difficult to understand racial processes as some actions may be insensitive but most
likely to trigger racialization in schools. For instance, as simple as labeling a group of students or
part of a people as “different” sensual enough to be termed as racial. On the same, Grant(2016)
in his journal on “Canada's racial divide- Confronting racism in our backyard” believes that
issues of racism and racialization affect students academically and mentally. With his narrative
on the encounters of one student in the name of “Rhonda Britton," it is clear how students go
through stress and depression or even isolation in the name of racism. As Charlotte and
Sarab(2016) put it, the Canadian society faces many kinds of racism with violent and structural
racism the most experienced. Though the two kinds of racism are politically embedded in
Canadian society, the impacts are massive that institutions including schools have segregated
based onskin color or tone. The same can is identifiable in Grant(2016)’s case where “Rhonda