Dr. Handel Wright on Governance Hack Podcast
Welcome to the second episode of Governance Hack. Governance Hack is the podcast series for the Unsettling University Governance project. We’re an interdisciplinary team of minoritized faculty members with deep leadership experience, who work at Canadian public universities. The team brings bad attitudes and radical daydreams to the project of problematizing the university as we know it. […]
Interview: To understand B.C.’s Black history, connect past and present in Canada, Handel Wright
“If you don’t know much about Black history in British Columbia, you’re not alone. “The general level of awareness of Black history in BC is really low,” says Dr. Handel Kashope Wright. A cultural studies scholar at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Wright is the co-editor of the forthcoming book, Black British Columbia: Past and Present.” […]
‘Talking in/talking out’: Indigenous knowledge, filmmaking, and the decolonial poetics of visual sovereignty
A conversation with Indigenous filmmaker and cultural activist Dr. Dorothy Christian, Sonia Medel and André Elias Mazawi
Office of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF), Woodward’s Building, Vancouver, BC, the early afternoon of June 7, 2019.
Positioning and introduction
Sonia Medel: I want to begin by welcoming you, Dorothy, and thank you for joining us for this conversation that will form part of the Postcolonial Directions in Education Special Issue on film and film festivals. I also want to acknowledge that we are engaging in this this conversation, here, in the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF) office, in the Woodward’s building, in Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish, Tseil-wautulth, Musqueam and Squamish lands. This is very much a contested building and land, a reality that forms part of our ongoing dialogue behind the need for a Special Issue on the (de)colonial potential of film and film festivals. I would like to hand over the floor to you, Dorothy, by asking “Who is Dr. Dorothy Christian and why were you interested in joining us today?”.
CBC On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko: How to be an ally
June 17th, 2020. CBC Radio (CBC On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko) segment on “How to be an ally”
Interview on CBC TV online: How to become an ally
June 17th, 2020. Interview on CBC TV online “How to become an ally: Educators, community leaders explain ways to stand up to anti-Black racism (CBC TV Nadia Jannif)
Tips for discussing race with kids from Handel Wright, Andrew Baron and Rhea Boyd
The worldwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism that began last week after the death of George Floyd are forcing many parents to address issues of race, privilege and injustice based on skin colour with their kids. Here’s how to do it effectively.
Interview on CBC Radio show, The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn
June 4th , 2020. Interview on CBC Radio show, The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn. “What role should education play in righting racism”
Interview with Lynda Steele Show at CKNW: Analyzing racism in the USA. Are we any better?
Analyzing racism in the USA. Are we any better?
May 29th , 2020- Interview with Lynda Steele Show at CKNW about “How the recurrent problem of Police Brutality and killings of Black men can be addressed?”
The Freire Project talks to Handel Wright
Interview with Handel Wright –CCIE Director, Handel Wright talks to the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy about interculturalism versus multiculturalism, youth in Canada, USA and Europe, his relationship with Project founder Joe Kincheloe and critical pedagogy’s influence on his own work. (10 June, 2009)
Interview with Handel Wright by Carole Wallace Link editor
Interview quoted in Link, a semi-annual newsletter put out by the Network of Centres and Institutes in Education at UBC (NCIE). Interview with Dr. Handel Wright, conducted by Carole Wallace. In this interview, Dr. Handel Wright sits down with Link editor, Carole Wallace, to discuss his work at CCIE and the path that lead him to found CCIE and take up a Canadian Research Chair at UBC.