International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

George Elliott Clarke

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• African-Canadian
• African-Canadian history/literature
• African/American/Canadian Poetry
• Anti-racism initiatives
• Canadian (poetry)
• Canadian literature
• Creative Writing (MA)
• New World African
• Postcolonial

Office: 416-946-3143
Website
Email: georgeelliott.clarke@utoronto.ca
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Izumi Sakamoto

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
• Centres
  • Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ)

Areas of Expertise

• Anti-Asian racism, Asian Canadian identities & model minority myth
• Anti-oppressive practice (AOP) and intersectionality
• Community-based, participatory, arts-based research
• Critical consciousness and social work pedagogy
• Critical international social work
• Critical tacit knowledge
• Homelessness and diversity
• Immigrants and refugees
• Integration and cultural adaptation of immigrants
• Japanese Canadian identities, arts, activism & communities
• Skilled immigrants and employment barriers
• “Canadian experience” (immigrant employment discrimination)

Office: 416-946-8224
Languages (in addition to English): Japanese
Website
Email: izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Reitz

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Human rights
• Immigrant employment
• Immigration
• Immigration policy
• Management of diversity issues
• Multiculturalism in western countries
• Race and ethnic relations
• Racism in Canada & improving efforts to combat it
• U.S. race relations
• Workplace issues

Office: N/A
Home: 416-465-5596
Mobile: 416-465-5596
Website
Email: jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca
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Phani Radhakrishnan

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Management

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural differences in workers
• Diversity in the workplace including racial harassment
• Diversity in the workplace including racial harassment & discrimination
• Leadership skills training

Office: (416) 287-7319
Home: 416-656-3234
Website
Email: phani.radhakrishnan@utoronto.ca
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Scot Wortley

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
• Centres
  • Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Community corrections
• Crime statistics
• Criminal justice issues
• Immigration and crime;
• Media coverage of crime
• Penology (prisons)
• Police use of force
• Racial profiling
• Racism in the criminal justice system
• Youth crime and delinquency
• Youth gangs

Office: 416-946-7428
Website
Email: scot.wortley@utoronto.ca
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