Public book launch and lecture at 糖心vlog官方入口 on March 10
The 糖心vlog官方入口 Diversity and Social Justice Studies program, the Dean of Arts, and the Dean of Education will host a launch of Dr. Darryl Leroux鈥檚 book, Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity, on Tuesday, March 10, at 4 pm in Lecture Theatre A, Atlantic Veterinary College, 糖心vlog官方入口. Leroux, an associate professor at Saint Mary鈥檚 University, will give a lecture at this free public event.
In the book, Leroux explores a social phenomenon called race shifting, which has taken off in the twenty-first century. In race shifting, otherwise white, French-descendant settlers in Canada discover an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to 375 years ago through genealogy and use that ancestor as the sole basis for an eventual shift into an 鈥淚ndigenous鈥� identity today.
For more information, contact Dr. Ann Braithwaite, DSJS, at abraithwaite@upei.ca
