Canadian History
Stop normalizing racism towards South Asians
February 3, 2025By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer Content warning: descriptions of anti-South Asian rhetoric. Whether it’s “taking our jobs,” “ruining the economy,” or not “assimilating” to western norms, immigrants are increasingly being used as an excuse for our “crumbling” society. This is compounded by the normalization of racism towards South Asians. Such scapegoating and racist rhetoric has risen and continues to solidify itself as an abhorrent norm in day-to-day life. Though it’s nothing new, as seen even in 1914 with the Komagata Maru incident when hundreds of Indian immigrants were turned away from Vancouver’s ports — history has a cruel way of…
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Two SFU staff receive Accomplished Black Canadian Women awards
November 6, 2024By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer and Tam Nguyen, Interviewer On September 28, two SFU staff were honoured as recipients of the 100 Accomplished Black Canadian (ABC) Women Awards: Dr. June Francis, professor in the Beedie School of Business, and Dr.…
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Joe Sacco and Glen Coulthard discuss Paying The Land
November 7, 2022By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer Joe Sacco’s new book Paying The Land illustrates and unfolds the stories of the Dane peoples that have lived in the Mackenzie River. Their land in the Northwest Territories has valuable resources and is a…
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Opinions in Dialogue: Importance of incorporating Black history into education
September 22, 2020Editor's Note: Names used in conversation have been changed for the sake of anonymity As Black Lives Matter protests continue in the US as well as here in Canada, the questions of ways to bring more awareness to the oppression…
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