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What is Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures: about?
The editorial board of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures stands in solidarity with Black students, teachers, librarians, academics, and their communities. While the current wave of #BlackLivesMatter protests was sparked by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd, systemic racism has a long history in the United States. Rooted in the transatlantic slave trade, it has taken many forms throughout the history of the nation, including lynching, police brutality, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, the redlining of predominantly African American neighbourhoods, and other forms of systemic oppression. Systemic racism also has a long history in Canada and is similarly rooted in the transatlantic slave trade. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where Jeunesse is housed, three Indigenous people were murdered by police in April of this year alone, including sixteen-year-old Eishia Hudson, thirty-six-year-old Jason Collins, and twenty-two-year-old Stewart Kevin Andrews. That all three of these murders occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour, speaks volumes about the politic
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- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)