1. JT Billings

3.  UFT Professor and chair  Traditional chief in Ghana  Sociologist  Inclusion  Racism, ableism, sexism etc.  1996 and 2000  Asokore-Koforidua, Ghana  Undergrad from University of Ghana  Master at McMaster

4.  PhD from University of Toronto  Received numerous awards  Published many books

5.  Development, structure, and functioning of human society  Specific groups  Minorities  Race  Able  Sexual orientation  -isms affect them  How to remove –isms

6.  Effect -isms has on all minorities  Integrative Anti-Racism Theory  Education offered with knowledge of other races  Start of solution  Idea needs to be tested

7.  Start:  Why are so many minorities dropping out and leaving high school?  Older  How do we ensure that social institutions and settings respond to the needs and concerns of a diverse body politic?  How do we ensure that excellence is not simply accessible but also equitable?

8.  Old cont.  How do we ensure that all member of out communities develop a sense of entitlement and belongings to their spaces?  How do we move beyond the bland talk of ‘inclusion’ to a radical politics of social accountability and transparency?  How do we ensure that what is theoretical does not stand in opposition to what is pragmatic?

9.  New  Within the academy we need to ask about the possibilities, in this historical juncture, of every learner escaping racist, sexist, classist, hetero- patriarchal ideologies?  How do we challenge the fact that most of our students appear set in their knowledge and thinking because of school curriculum?  How do we examine the ways that racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism are travelling today

10.  New Cont.  How can we bring race and difference back into the center of discourse and challenge the politics of dis- embodying subjects?  How do we challenge the propensity of the western academy to celebrate diversity and yet not respond concretely to difference?

11.  -isms can disappear  Starting point of racial acceptance  Understanding of other Races.

12.  Do you think this method will be successful?  How would you go about solving this problem if you could?  How should we go about saying that what people think is wrong?