Applying Critical Race Theory to Explore Services Needs and Pathways to Inclusion for African, Caribbean, and Black Youth in the Greater Toronto Area
| dc.contributor.author | Nembhard, Justin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-10T16:12:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-10T16:12:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Despite comprising a significant 8.7% of the Greater Toronto Area’s population and enriching the city’s cultural landscape (Statistics Canada, 2022), African, Caribbean, Black youths face a harsh reality of unemployment rates doubling the national and provincial average (City of Toronto, 2017). This underscores the urgent need to understand and address these systemic inequities. This research applies Critical Race Theory to investigate how systemic anti-Black racism shapes the well-being, service needs, and pathways to inclusion of African Caribbean Black youths in the Greater Toronto Area. Leveraging a virtual digital ethnography approach, this study analyzes secondary data to augment the voices of African, Caribbean, Black youths. The key themes that emerged from the analysis are centring African and Caribbean Black youth voices, dismantling institutional anti-Black racism, transformative change, Anti-oppressive approaches, and systemic anti-Black racism and its impact. This research aims to inform the development of anti-racist interventions and promote pathways to inclusion that aids in the dismantlement of systemic barriers which has the ability to empower ACB youth to thrive within the GTA. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42563 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.title | Applying Critical Race Theory to Explore Services Needs and Pathways to Inclusion for African, Caribbean, and Black Youth in the Greater Toronto Area | |
| dc.type | Research Paper |