Roxana Ng is an educator and scholar who has been involved in anti-racist feminism since the mid-1970s, shortly after she immigrated to Canada. She established “immigrant women” as a field of study in the 1970s, when they were an invisible group in Canadian society. She was one of the organizers of the immigrant women’s movement in Canada. She was amongst the first Canadian feminists to theorize race, gender, and class as interlocking relations.
Roxana Ng joined the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in 1988 as the first woman of colour faculty. She founded the Anti-racism Network at OISE, which evolved into the Centre of Integrative Anti-racism Studies, when more faculty of colour joined OISE. The challenges she experienced as the lone feminist faculty of colour at OISE led her to develop “integrative anti-racist feminist pedagogy” as a field of research and praxis. She argues that to truly transform social relations, we must not only deconstruct western white patriarchal hegemonic knowledge. We must integrate emotion, body and spirit into our praxis; this, she asserts, is a form of decolonizing education. Roxana Ng is a Professor in the Adult Education and Community Development Program and the Head of the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at OISE/University of Toronto.
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