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Initiatives around anti-racism education in the secondary school system are presently insufficiently applied, particularly in recognizing Shadeism and its impact on the behaviour, academic achievement, and social engagement of students. This chapter hypothesizes that the closer in proximity to Whiteness of the student, the greater their access to White privilege. Obeyesekere situates the idea of Shadeism in the colonial context and establishes its present day implications on racialized secondary school students in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
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Obeyesekere, A.N. (2017). The Fairness of Shadows. In: Abdulle, A., Obeyesekere, A.N. (eds) New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-950-8_1
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