#CommunicationSoWhite - Canadian Style

We welcome you to attend #CommunicationSoWhite - Canadian Style, a webinar organized by the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC). This webinar celebrates the launch of Out of the Margins? Race, Racism, and Colonialism in Canadian Communication Studies, a CJC special issue edited by Faiza Hirji, Yasmin Jiwani, and Kirsten McAllister, which is concerned about the marginalization of race and Indigenous studies and scholars in Canadian communication studies. Building upon Paula Chakravartty, Rachel Kuo, Victoria Grubbs, Charlton McIlwain's #CommunicationSoWhite article, the #CommunicationSoWhite 2019 International Communication Association (ICA) pre-conference and special issue organized and edited by Eve Ng, Khadijah Costley White, and Anamik Saha, an article published in that issue, and a series of #CommunicationSoWhite panels at the 2021 Canadian Communication Association conference, the special issue brings together the voices of those who are present yet absent in the field, and foregrounds the issues that are likewise present but made absent in Canadian communication studies. The special issue hopes to prompt further questions, investigations, and an opening of the field and how we understand communication studies in Turtle Island/the settler colony of Canada. The webinar features presentations by the editors Faiza Hirji, Yasmin Jiwani, Kirsten McAllister and contributing authors Gretchen King, Dilyana Mincheva, Ravindra Mohabeer, Cheryl Thompson, Nathan Rambukkana, and Nimalan Yoganathan. An interactive Q&A session with the audience to follow.