The ‘Other’ Here and the ‘Other’ There:

Encountering the (Re)(De)construction of My Racialized and (Trans)national Identities

Authors

  • Mark T. S. Currie University of Ottawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29577

Abstract

Through examining key family narratives and selected personal experiences in this article, I reflect on how I began to rethink and (re)frame the representation of my racialized and (trans)national identities as a hyphenated, South African-Canadian citizen. The article summarizes my experiences of visiting Cape Town, South Africa (for the first time), when I engaged in a semester-long, secondary school teaching internship, conducting in-class action research while teaching Grades 9 and 10 History and English. I was sure that I was not just going to teach—I was going to discover myself. To borrow Derrida’s term, the “edges” of my identity continue to become blurred in relation to the shifting social and economic contexts.

Author Biography

Mark T. S. Currie, University of Ottawa

Mark T. S. Currie is a PhD Candidate and Educator in the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. He focuses his research around public pedagogies, sociohistorical space, and enacting antiracisms. His doctoral work examines how the Ontario Black History Society’s walking tour in downtown Toronto acts as an educational tool for engaging and (re)shaping sociohistorical spaces as antiracist geographies.

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Published

2021-08-17