Anti-Racism Seminar Series

This year’s speaker was Dr. Amira Rose Davis, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and History at Penn State. Dr. Davis works at the intersections of race, gender, sports and politics. She is one of the co-hosts of the popular feminist sports podcast, Burn It All Down, and is also a regular contributor to outlets such as NPR, ESPN and the BBC.

Her Macintosh Lecture is titled: “Not just here to entertain: Past, present and future of athletic activism.”

Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture

Biofeminism: The Epistemic Politics of Inclusion in Women’s Sport (Dr. Madeleine Pape) 

Donald Macintosh Memorial Lecture

Anishinaabeg Ganandawisiwin – Resistance

Strategies Against Embodied Settler Colonialism

Dr. Tricia McGuire-Adams
Macintosh Visiting Lecturer

The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s is hosting a free watch party for undergraduate & graduate students, faculty, staff and their family, friends and community members at The Screening Room for Black History Month. Join us as we screen Dear Jackie, a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first African American player in Major League Baseball and a civil rights activist who broke the colour barrier when he joined the minor-league Montreal Royals in 1946. For a short time, the impossible seemed possible in a segregated North America. But did Montrealers use this historic moment to perpetuate a myth of a post-racial society?

Through eloquent interviews, archival footage, and powerful vérité moments shot in lustrous black and white, director Henri Pardo masterfully threads together fragments of the past with the present-day realities of Little Burgundy, once known as the “Harlem of the North”. DEAR JACKIE unfolds as an intimate correspondence with Robinson that unravels the myth of a post-racial society, and is a testament to the triumphs and resilience of a community whose stories reveal the insidious racial inequalities in Montreal and Quebec

Featuring remarks from Dr. Jessica Selinger and Dr. Eun-Young Lee

CLEAR Lab with Domenica Lombeida & Dr. Deondre Smiles